Visualizing Flow Fields Around Colloids

Visualizing Strain Anisotropy in Mantle Flow Fields

The evolution of strain and development of material anisotropy in models of Earth’s mantle flow convey important information about how to interpret the geometric relationship between observation of seismic anisotropy and the actual mantle flow field. By combining feature extraction techniques such as path line integration and tensor accumulation, we compute time-varying strain vector fields tha...

Visualizing Flow Fields Using Fractal Dimensions

Streamlines are a popular way of visualizing flow in vector fields. A major challenge in flow field visualization is selecting the streamlines to view. Rendering too many streamlines clutters the visualization and makes features of the field difficult to identify. Rendering too few streamlines causes viewers to completely miss features of the flow field not rendered. The fractal dimension of a ...

Extracting and Visualizing Ocean Eddies in Time–Varying Flow Fields

Visualizing the Curvature of Unsteady D Flow Fields

The treatment of stream lines path lines and streak lines is a powerful method for visualizing the behavior of unsteady i e time dependent ow elds Although a closed parametric form of these lines does not exist we show how to compute their curvatures The visualiza tion of the curvatures of these curves shows several aspects of the ow such as location and movement of turbulent areas The techniqu...

Hierarchical Streamline Bundles for Visualizing 2D Flow Fields

We present hierarchical streamline bundles, a new approach to simplifying and visualizing 2D flow fields. Our method first densely seeds a flow field and produces a large number of streamlines that capture important flow features such as critical points. Then, we group spatially neighboring and geometrically similar streamlines to construct a hierarchy from which we extract streamline bundles a...