Streamball techniques for flow visualization

Author

Brill, Manfred ; Hagen, Hans ; Rodrian, Hans-Christian ; Djatschin, Wladimir ; Klimenko, Stanislav V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany

fYear

1994

fDate

17-21 Oct 1994

Firstpage

225

Abstract

We introduce the concept of streamballs for flow visualization. Streamballs are based upon implicit surface generation techniques adopted from the well-known metaballs. Their property to split or merge automatically in areas of significant divergence or convergence makes them an ideal tool for the visualization of arbitrary complex fields. Using convolution surfaces generated by continuous skeletons for streamball construction offers the possibility to visualize even tensor fields

Keywords

convergence of numerical methods; data visualisation; flow measurement; flow visualisation; physics computing; arbitrary complex fields; continuous skeletons; convolution surfaces; flow visualization; implicit surface generation techniques; metaballs; streamball techniques; tensor fields; Clouds; Computer displays; Computer science; Convergence; Convolution; Data visualization; Hydrogen; Skeleton; Tensile stress; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization, 1994., Visualization '94, Proceedings., IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6627-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346315

Filename

346315

Link To Document

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