An application of C¹ scalar interpolation for 2D vector field topology visualization is presented. Powell-Sabin and Nielson interpolants are considered which both make use of Nielson's Minimum Norm Network for the precomputation of the derivatives in our implementation. A comparison of their results to the commonly used linear interpolant underlines their significant improvement of singularity location and topological skeleton depiction. Evalution is based upon the processing of polynomial vector fields with known topology containing higher order singularities.
Index Terms:
vector field visualization, topology, critical point theory, C¹-interpolation
Citation:
Gerik Scheuermann, Xavier Tricoche, Hans Hagen, "C1-Interpolation for Vector Field Topology Visualization," ieee_vis, pp.43, 10th IEEE Visualization 1999 (VIS '99), 1999