A unified approach to streamline selection and viewpoint selection for 3D flow visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 393-406

  Tao, Jun ^a   Ma, Jun ^a   Wang, Chaoli ^a   Shene, Ching Kuang ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

camera path; Flow visualization; information channel; streamline selection; viewpoint selection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC FLOW; FIELD EXPLORATION; FLOW DATA; INFORMATION CHANNELS; SELECTION ALGORITHM; STREAMLINE SELECTION; UNIFIED APPROACH; VIEWPOINT SELECTION;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; INFORMATION THEORY;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FLOW KINETICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872237014     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.143     Document Type: Article

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