Title :
Particle flurries
Author :
Sobel, Jason S. ; Forsberg, Andrew S. ; Laidlaw, David H. ; Zeleznik, Robert C. ; Keefe, Daniel F. ; Pivkin, Igor ; Karniadakis, George E. ; Richardson, Peter ; Swartz, Sharon
Author_Institution :
Brown Univ., Providence, RI, USA
Abstract :
Particle Flurries is an interactive approach to 3D flow visualization. The approach produces a "synoptic visualization" and is used to examine both internal and external flows. Synoptic visualizations give viewers a synopsis of all flow features simultaneously. Good examples of 2D synoptic visualizations are weather maps from both TV news reports and online Web pages. The human visual system is adept at finding patterns within larger contexts, and we hypothesize that synoptic visualization methods will help users find unexpected features more quickly and thus speed the understanding of complex 3D time-varying flows. Particle Flurries (PF) is our effort toward a synoptic visualization of complex pulsatile 3D flow.
Keywords :
flow visualisation; pulsatile flow; solid modelling; visual perception; 2D synoptic visualization; 3D flow visualization; external flow; human visual system; interactive approach; internal flow; particle flurries; pulsatile 3D flow; synoptic visualization; Animation; Biology computing; Biomedical computing; Blood flow; Cardiology; Computational modeling; Data visualization; Medical simulation; Pathology; Runtime; Algorithms; Animals; Arteries; Blood Flow Velocity; Computer Graphics; Computer Simulation; Hemorheology; Humans; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Models, Cardiovascular; Particle Size; Pulsatile Flow; User-Computer Interface;
Journal_Title :
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MCG.2004.1274065
