Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Visualization, 1994., Visualization '94, Proceedings., IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6627-7
DOI :
10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346315
