Animated texture alpha-masks for flow visualization

Author

Curington, Ian

Author_Institution

Adv. Visual Syst. Ltd., Chertsey, UK

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

434

Lastpage

438

Abstract

A method of using a moving texture alpha-mask to represent scientific data is described, for the purpose of visualizing continuous fluid dynamics fields. The method combines stream tubes and particle animation into one hybrid technique, and employs texture surface display to represent time, flow velocity and 3D flow structure in one view. The technique exploits texture graphics systems in common use for games, and achieves high graphics efficiency during animation

Keywords

computational fluid dynamics; computer animation; data visualisation; flow visualisation; image texture; interpolation; 3D flow structure; animated texture alpha-masks; computer animation; continuous fluid dynamics fields; flow velocity; flow visualization; interpolation; particle animation; scientific data representation; stream tubes; texture graphics; texture surface display; time; Animation; Atmospheric modeling; Clouds; Computational fluid dynamics; Computer graphics; Data visualization; Ellipsoids; Fluid dynamics; Interpolation; Visual system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1093-9547

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0743-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2000.859793

Filename

859793

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2291531