Animated illuminated lines for flow visualization

Author

Curington, Ian

Author_Institution

Adv. Visual Syst. Ltd., Chertsey, UK

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

317

Lastpage

322

Abstract

A method of using a dynamic texture on 3D polylines to represent field streamlines is described for the purpose of visualizing continuous fluid dynamic fields. The method combines stream lines and particle animation into one hybrid technique, and employs texture display on lines to represent full 3D lighting, motion 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; 3D flow structure; 3D lighting; 3D polylines; animated illuminated lines; continuous fluid dynamic fields; dynamic texture; field streamlines; flow visualization; games; graphics efficiency; hybrid technique; particle animation; stream lines; texture display; texture graphics systems; Animation; Computational fluid dynamics; Computer graphics; Data visualization; Displays; Fluid dynamics; Interpolation; Lighting; Shape; Visual system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualisation, 2001. Proceedings. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1195-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2001.942076

Filename

942076

Link To Document

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