Illustrative flow visualization: State of the art, trends and challenges

A Brambilla, R Carnecky, R Peikert, I Viola… - … Visualization Design for …, 2012 - bora.uib.no
Flow visualization is a well established branch of scientific visualization and it currently
represents an invaluable resource to many fields, like automotive design, meteorology and …

Surface-based flow visualization

M Edmunds, RS Laramee, G Chen, N Max, E Zhang… - Computers & …, 2012 - Elsevier
With increasing computing power, it is possible to process more complex fluid simulations.
However, a gap between increasing data size and our ability to visualize them still remains …

Over two decades of integration‐based, geometric flow visualization

T McLoughlin, RS Laramee, R Peikert… - Computer Graphics …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
With ever increasing computing power, it is possible to process ever more complex fluid
simulations. However, a gap between data set sizes and our ability to visualize them …

Streak lines as tangent curves of a derived vector field

T Weinkauf, H Theisel - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Characteristic curves of vector fields include stream, path, and streak lines. Stream and path
lines can be obtained by a simple vector field integration of an autonomous ODE system, ie …

Streamline integration using MPI-hybrid parallelism on a large multicore architecture

D Camp, C Garth, H Childs… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Streamline computation in a very large vector field data set represents a significant
challenge due to the nonlocal and data-dependent nature of streamline integration. In this …

[PDF][PDF] Linear-time smoke animation with vortex sheet meshes

T Brochu, T Keeler, R Bridson - Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH …, 2012 - Citeseer
We present the first quality physics-based smoke animation method which runs in time
approximately linear in the size of the rendered two-dimensional visual detail. Our …

Iris: Illustrative rendering for integral surfaces

M Hummel, C Garth, B Hamann… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integral surfaces are ideal tools to illustrate vector fields and fluid flow structures. However,
these surfaces can be visually complex and exhibit difficult geometric properties, owing to …

Illustrative stream surfaces

S Born, A Wiebel, J Friedrich… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stream surfaces are an intuitive approach to represent 3D vector fields. In many cases,
however, they are challenging objects to visualize and to understand, due to a high degree …

Interpolation-based pathline tracing in particle-based flow visualization

J Chandler, H Obermaier, KI Joy - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Particle tracing in time-varying flow fields is traditionally performed by numerical integration
of the underlying vector field. This procedure can become computationally expensive …

Developing virtual reality visualizations for unsteady flow analysis of dinosaur track formation using scientific sketching

J Novotny, J Tveite, ML Turner, S Gatesy… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the results of a two-year design study to developing virtual reality (VR) flow
visualization tools for the analysis of dinosaur track creation in a malleable substrate. Using …