Visualization of Time-Varying Curvilinear Grids Using a 3D Warp Texture
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We present a novel scheme to interactively visualize time-varying scalar fields defined on a curvilinear grid. We create a 3D warp texture that maps points in R into the grid coordinate system. At rendering time, the warping function is reconstructed at each fragment using tri-linear interpolation, and provides the 3D texture coordinates required to look up a scalar field value stored in a separate scalar texture. In essence, this approach reduces the problem of rendering a curvilinear grid to the problem of rendering a regular grid with one additional texture
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