Smart transparency for illustrative visualization of complex flow surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 838-851

  Carnecky, Robert ^a   Fuchs, Raphael ^a   Mehl, Stephanie ^b   Jang, Yun ^c   Peikert, Ronald ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

a buffer; diffusion; flow visualization; illustration buffer; Illustrative rendering; integral surface; perception; transparency; user study

Indexed keywords

A-BUFFER; ILLUSTRATION BUFFER; ILLUSTRATIVE RENDERING; INTEGRAL SURFACES; USER STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BLENDING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA STRUCTURES; DIFFUSION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; TRANSPARENCY;

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;

EID: 84875624963     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.159     Document Type: Article

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