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Dynamic Line Integral Convolution for Visualizing Streamline Evolution
July-September 2003 (vol. 9 no. 3)
pp. 273-282
Abstract—The depiction of time-dependent vector fields is a central problem in scientific visualization. This article describes a technique for generating animations of such fields where the motion of the streamlines to be visualized is given by a second “motion” vector field. Each frame of our animation is a Line Integral Convolution of the original vector field with a time-varying input texture. The texture is evolved according to the associated motion vector field via an automatically adjusted set of random particles. We demonstrate this technique with examples from electromagnetism.
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Index Terms:
Line integral convolution, time-dependent, time-varying, vector fields, field lines, streamlines, electromagnetism.
Citation:
Andreas Sundquist, "Dynamic Line Integral Convolution for Visualizing Streamline Evolution," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 273-282, July-Sept. 2003, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2003.1207436
