Time and streak surfaces for flow visualization in large time-varying data sets

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1267-1274

  Krishnan, Hari ^a   Garth, Christoph ^a   Joy, Kenneth I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D vector field visualization; flow visualization; surface extraction; time and streak surfaces; time varying

Indexed keywords

3D VECTOR FIELD VISUALIZATION; COMPACT REPRESENTATION; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; HIGH QUALITY; INTERACTIVITY; MOVING PARTICLES; NOVEL ALGORITHM; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PARALLELIZATIONS; REAL-WORLD DATASETS; STREAK SURFACES; SURFACE EXTRACTION; SURFACE TRACKING; TIME VARYING; TIME-VARYING DATA SETS; VECTOR FIELDS;

ADVECTION; ALGORITHMS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; VECTORS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77957831699     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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