Poisson-based Tools for Flow Visualization
Martinez Esturo, J. and Schulze, M. and Rössl, C. and Theisel, H.

Abstract

This paper applies Poisson-based methods to assist in interactive exploration of steady flow fields. Using data-driven deformations we obtain flow-orthogonal and flow-tangential surfaces by a flux-based optimization. Surfaces are positioned interactively and deformed in real-time according to local flow. The deformed surfaces are particularly useful for defining seed structures. We show how the same gradient-based computational framework can be applied to obtain parametrizations of flow-aligned surfaces. This way it is easy to define nontrivial seed structures for integration-based flow visualization methods. Additionally, the flow-aligned parametrizations are employed for view-independent surface-based LIC visualizations. We apply our method to a number of data sets to show the effectiveness of our deformations and parametrization-based seed extraction methods for interactive flow exploration.

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{MartinezEsturo2013,
  title = {Poisson-based Tools for Flow Visualization},
  author = { {Martinez~Esturo}, J. and Schulze, M. and R{\"o}ssl, C. and Theisel, H.},
  booktitle = {Proc. PacificVis},
  pages = {241--248},
  year = {2013},
  publisher = {IEEE}
}

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