Interactive streak surface visualization on the GPU

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1243-1250

  Bürger, Kai ^a   Ferstl, Florian ^c   Theisel, Holger ^b   Westermann, Rüdiger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

GPUs; streak surface generation; Unsteady flow visualization

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COARSENING; FLOW VISUALIZATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; OSTWALD RIPENING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; UNSTEADY FLOW;

ADAPTIVE INTEGRATION; BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; CONSTRUCTION STAGES; GPUS; POINT BASED APPROACHES; STREAK SURFACES; SURFACE REPRESENTATION; SURFACE TRIANGULATION;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 77957830860     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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