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An Advanced Evenly-Spaced Streamline Placement Algorithm
September-October 2006 (vol. 12 no. 5)
pp. 965-972
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Zhanping Liu, Robert Moorhead, Joe Groner, "An Advanced Evenly-Spaced Streamline Placement Algorithm," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 965-972, September-October, 2006.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2006.116,
author = {Zhanping Liu and Robert Moorhead and Joe Groner},
title = {An Advanced Evenly-Spaced Streamline Placement Algorithm},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {12},
number = {5},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {2006},
pages = {965-972},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2006.116},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
TI - An Advanced Evenly-Spaced Streamline Placement Algorithm
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SN - 1077-2626
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EPD - 965-972
A1 - Zhanping Liu,
A1 - Robert Moorhead,
A1 - Joe Groner,
PY - 2006
KW - Flow visualization
KW - evenly-spaced streamlines
KW - streamline placement
KW - seeding strategy
KW - closed streamlines.
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JA - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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This paper presents an advanced evenly-spaced streamline placement algorithm for fast, high-quality, and robust layout of flow lines. A fourth-order Runge-Kutta integrator with adaptive step size and error control is employed for rapid accurate streamline advection. Cubic Hermite polynomial interpolation with large sample-spacing is adopted to create fewer evenly-spaced samples along each streamline to reduce the amount of distance checking. We propose two methods to enhance placement quality. Double queues are used to prioritizetopological seeding and to favor long streamlines to minimize discontinuities. Adaptive distance control based on the local flow variance is explored to reduce cavities. Furthermore, we propose a universal, effective, fast, and robust loop detection strategy to address closed and spiraling streamlines. Our algorithm is an order-of-magnitude faster than Jobard and Lefer's algorithm [8] with better placement quality and over 5 times faster than Mebarki et al.'s algorithm [9] with comparable placement quality, but with a more robust solution to loop detection.

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Index Terms:
Flow visualization, evenly-spaced streamlines, streamline placement, seeding strategy, closed streamlines.
Citation:
Zhanping Liu, Robert Moorhead, Joe Groner, "An Advanced Evenly-Spaced Streamline Placement Algorithm," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 965-972, Sept.-Oct. 2006, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2006.116
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