An evaluation of glyph perception for real symmetric traceless tensor properties

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1133-1142

  Jankun Kelly, T J ^a   Lanka, Y S ^a   Swan II, J E ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

I.3.3 Computer Graphics : Picture Image Generation; I.3.5 Computer Graphics : Computational Geometry and Object Modeling Curve, surface, solid, and object representations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GEOMETRY; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

BIAXIALITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY AND OBJECT MODELING; I.3.3 [COMPUTER GRAPHICS]: PICTURE/IMAGE GENERATION; TENSOR PROPERTIES; TENSOR VISUALIZATIONS;

TENSORS;

EID: 77955729287     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01711.x     Document Type: Article

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