High-quality and interactive animations of 3D time-varying vector fields

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1535-1546

  Helgeland, Anders ^a,b   Elboth, Thomas ^b  

^a IEEE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Direct volume rendering; Flow animation; Multifield visualization; Programmable graphics hardware; Vector field visualization

Indexed keywords

DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; FLOW ANIMATION; MULTIFIELD VISUALIZATION; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARE; VECTOR FIELD VISUALIZATION;

ANIMATION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RHEOLOGY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33749511230     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.95     Document Type: Article

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