Superquadric glyphs for symmetric second-order tensors

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1595-1604

  Schultz, Thomas ^a   Kindlmann, Gordon L ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometry Tensors; Glyph Design; Rate of Deformation Tensors; Stress Tensors; Tensor Glyphs

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION TENSORS; DIFFUSION TENSOR; EIGEN-VALUE; EIGENVALUES; EXTRACTION METHOD; GLYPH DESIGN; QUADRATIC FORM; RATE-OF-DEFORMATION TENSORS; SECOND-ORDER TENSORS; SHAPE SPACE; STRESS TENSORS; TENSOR FIELDS; THREE DIMENSIONS; UNIT SQUARES; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DEFORMATION; DESIGN; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NUMBER THEORY; STRESSES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

TENSORS;

EID: 78149257130     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.199     Document Type: Article

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