Streak lines as tangent curves of a derived vector field

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1225-1234

  Weinkauf, Tino ^a   Theisel, Holger ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

feature extraction; streak lines; streak surfaces; unsteady flow visualization

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; CORE LINES; FEATURE EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS; GROUND TRUTH; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; PATH LINES; POSSIBLE FUTURES; STREAK LINES; STREAK SURFACES; SWIRLING MOTION; TEMPORAL GRADIENTS; VECTOR FIELDS;

AERODYNAMICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HYDRAULICS; INTEGRATION; UNSTEADY FLOW; VECTORS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 78149251206     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.198     Document Type: Article

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