An information-theoretic framework for flow visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1216-1224

  Xu, Lijie ^a   Lee, Teng Yok ^a   Shen, Han Wei ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow field visualization; information theory; streamline generation

Indexed keywords

3D FLOW; COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; CONDITIONAL ENTROPY; DATA SETS; FLOWFIELD VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION CONTENTS; KEY COMPONENT; SHANNON'S ENTROPY; STREAMLINE GENERATION; VECTOR FIELDS; VISUALIZATION ALGORITHMS;

CIVIL AVIATION; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 78149243194     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.131     Document Type: Article

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