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Interactive visual exploration of unsteady 3D flows

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P. Kondratieva,

R. WestermannAuthors Info & Claims

EUROVIS'07: Proceedings of the 9th Joint Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Visualization

Pages 251 - 258

Published: 23 May 2007 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we present GPU-based techniques for the interactive visualization of large unsteady 3D flow fields on uniform grids. We propose a novel dual-core approach to asynchronously stream such fields from the CPU, thus enabling the efficient exploration of large time-resolved sequences. This approach decouples visualization from data handling, resulting in interactive frame rates. Built upon a previously published GPU particle engine for flow visualization we have developed new strategies to compute and to visualize path lines and streak lines on the GPU. To provide additional visual cues, focus+context techniques for polygonal meshes have been integrated. The proposed techniques are used in the visual analysis of the Terashake 2.1 earthquake simulation data, and they have been shown to be very effective in revealing the relevant information in this data.

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Interactive visual exploration of unsteady 3D flows
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation

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EUROVIS'07: Proceedings of the 9th Joint Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Visualization

May 2007

290 pages

ISBN:9783905673456

Editors:
Ken Museth
Linköping University, Sweden
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Torsten Möller
Simon Fraser University, Canada
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Anders Ynnerman
Linköping University, Sweden

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EUROGRAPHICS: The European Association for Computer Graphics

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Published: 23 May 2007

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3293524.3293528
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