Flow charts: Visualization of vector fields on arbitrary surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1067-1080

  Li, Guo Shi ^b   Tricoche, Xavier ^a,c   Weiskopf, Daniel ^a,d   Hansen, Charles ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flow visualization; Graphics hardware; Textures

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SURFACES; CURVED SURFACES; FLOW CHARTS; GLOBAL VIEWS; HARDWARE ACCELERATED; LONG TIME; PARAMETERIZED; PARTICLE ADVECTION; SURFACE PARAMETERIZATION; TEXTURE ATLAS; VECTOR FIELDS (CO); VIEW DEPENDENT; VISUAL ARTIFACTS; VISUALIZATION METHODS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES;

ADVECTION; AERODYNAMICS; CONVOLUTION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; FILMS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLOWCHARTING; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; TEXTURES; TURBULENT FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW; VISUALIZATION;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FLOW KINETICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 47649126429     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.58     Document Type: Article

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