The State of the Art in Flow Visualization: Dense and Texture-Based Techniques.

Laramee, Robert S.; Hauser, Helwig; Doleisch, Helmut; Vrolijk, Benjamin; Post, Frits H.; Weiskopf, Daniel

Flow visualization has been a very attractive component of scientific visualization research for a long time. Usually very large multivariate datasets require processing. These datasets often consist of a large number of sample locations and several time steps. The steadily increasing performance of computers has recently become a driving factor for a reemergence in flow visualization research, especially in texture-based techniques. In this paper, dense, texture-based flow visualization techniques are discussed. This class of techniques attempts to provide a complete, dense representation of the flow field with high spatio-temporal coherency. An attempt of categorizing closely related solutions is incorporated and presented. Fundamentals are shortly addressed as well as advantages and disadvantages of the methods.

FLOW visualization; VISUALIZATION; COMPUTER graphics; ENGINEERING graphics; DIGITAL image processing

Computer Graphics Forum, 2004, Vol 23, Issue 2, p203

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Academic Journal

10.1111/j.1467-8659.2004.00753.x