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Eyelet Particle Tracing - Steady Visualization of Unsteady Flow
Minneapolis, Minnesota October 23-October 28
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VIS.2005.3816th IEEE Visualization 2005 (VIS 2005)
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Alexander Wiebel, University of Leipzig, Germany
Gerik Scheuermann, University of Leipzig, Germany
It is a challenging task to visualize the behavior of time-dependent 3D vector fields. Most of the time an overview of unsteady fields is provided via animations, but, unfortunately, animations provide only transient impressions of momentary flow. In this paper we present two approaches to visualize time varying fields with fixed geometry. Path lines and streak lines represent such a steady visualization of unsteady vector fields, but because of occlusion and visual clutter it is useless to draw them all over the spatial domain. A selection is needed. We show how bundles of streak lines and path lines, running at different times through one point in space, like through an eyelet, yield an insightful visualization of flow structure ("eyelet lines"). To provide a more intuitive and appealing visualization we also explain how to construct a surface from these lines. As second approach, we use a simple measurement of local changes of a field over time to determine regions with strong changes. We visualize these regions with isosurfaces to give an overview of the activity in the dataset. Finally we use the regions as a guide for placing eyelets.
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Alexander Wiebel, Gerik Scheuermann, "Eyelet Particle Tracing - Steady Visualization of Unsteady Flow," vis, pp.77, 16th IEEE Visualization 2005 (VIS 2005), 2005
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