Texture-Based Flow Visualization


Dense texture-based vector field visualization has the goal to show the complete vector field and, therefore, does not miss any important features of a data set. This web page gives an overview of research in GPU-accelerated texture-based flow visualization that allows for interactive applications.


Spacetime-Coherent Visualization of Vector Fields

UFAC Author: Daniel Weiskopf

This web page contains additional material accompanying the IEEE Visualization 2003 paper "A Texture-Based Framework for Spacetime-Coherent Visualization of Time-Dependent Vector Fields" by Daniel Weiskopf, Gordon Erlebacher, and Thomas Ertl.




Animation of Orthogonal Texture Patterns for Vector Field Visualization

Animation of Orthogonal Texture Patterns for Vector Field Visualization Author: Sven Bachthaler, Daniel Weiskopf

This web page contains additional material accompanying the paper which introduces orthogonal vector field visualization on 2D manifolds: a representation by lines that are perpendicular to the input vector field. Line patterns are generated by line integral convolution (LIC). This visualization is combined with animation based on motion along the vector field.



Surface Flow Visualization

Surface Flow Visualization Techniques Author: Daniel Weiskopf

This web page contains additional material accompanying the Graphics Interface 2004 paper "A Hybrid Physical/Device-Space Approach for Spatio-Temporally Coherent Interactive Texture Advection on Curved Surfaces" by Daniel Weiskopf and Thomas Ertl.



3D Texture Advection (Eurovis 2005)

3D Texture Advection (Eurovis 2005) Author: Daniel Weiskopf

This web page contains additional material accompanying the Eurovis 2005 paper "Real-Time Advection and Volumetric Illumination for the Visualization of 3D Unsteady Flow" by Daniel Weiskopf, Tobias Schafhitzel, and Thomas Ertl.



3D Texture Advection (IEEE TVCG 2007)

3D Texture Advection (IEEE TVCG 2007 Author: Daniel Weiskopf

This web page contains additional material accompanying the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics paper "Texture-Based Visualization of 3D Unsteady Flow by Real-Time Advection and Volumetric Illumination" by Daniel Weiskopf, Tobias Schafhitzel, and Thomas Ertl.



3D Line Integral Convolution (IEEE TVCG 2008)

3D Line Integral Convolution Author: Martin Falk, Daniel Weiskopf

This web page contains additional material accompanying the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics paper "Output-Sensitive 3D Line Integral Convolution" by Martin Falk and Daniel Weiskopf.



IEEE Visualization Tutorial

Visualization 2004 Tutorial Author: Daniel Weiskopf

This web page contains material of the IEEE Visualization 2004 Tutorial on "Interactive Texture-Based Flow Visualization". Interactive texture-based flow visualization has become an active field of research in the last three or four years. Recent progress in this field has led to efficient vector field visualization methods and, in particular, to improved techniques for time-dependent data. This tutorial covers approaches for vector fields given on 2D planes, on surfaces, and within 3D volumes. Both the theoretical background and the GPU-oriented implementations of many of these techniques are presented, along with a demonstration of their usefulness by means of typical applications.



Uncertainty Visualization

Authors: Ralf Botchen, Daniel Weiskopf

Visualization 2004 Tutorial This web page contains additional material accompanying the Vis 2005 paper "Texture-Based Visualization of Uncertainty in Flow Fields " by Ralf P. Botchen, Daniel Weiskopf and Thomas Ertl.


Last modified 8 January 2008
by Daniel Weiskopf