Representing higher-order singularities in vector fields on piecewise linear surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1315-1322

  Li, Wan Chiu ^a   Vallet, Bruno ^a   Ray, Nicolas ^b   Lévy, Bruno ^a  

^a INRIA ALICE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

GPU; Higher order singularities; Line integral convolution; Vector field visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA STRUCTURES; INTERPOLATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

GPU; HIGHER-ORDER SINGULARITIES; LINE INTEGRAL CONVOLUTION; VECTOR FIELD VISUALIZATION;

VECTORS;

EID: 33845604649     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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