The state of the art in flow visualization: Dense and texture-based techniques

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 203-221

  Laramee, Robert S ^a   Hauser, Helwig ^a   Doleisch, Helmut ^a   Vrolijk, Benjamin ^b   Post, Frits H ^b   Weiskopf, Daniel ^c  

^a VRVIS RESEARCH CENTER   (Austria)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flow visualization; Texture based flow visualization; Vector field visualization; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; TEXTURES; VECTORS;

SPATIO-TEMPORAL COHERENCY; TEXTURE-BASED FLOW VISUALIZATION; TEXTURE-BASED TECHNIQUES; VECTOR FIELD VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 4043125435     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2004.00753.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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