Interactive visualization of 3D-vector fields using illuminated stream lines
Proceedings of the 7th conference on Visualization '96
Vector field analysis and synthesis using three-dimensional phase portraits
Graphical Models and Image Processing
Feature comparisons of vector fields using earth mover's distance
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '98
Collapsing flow topology using area metrics
VIS '99 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '99: celebrating ten years
Topology preserving compression of 2D vector fields
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '00
A topology simplification method for 2D vector fields
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '00
A tetrahedra-based stream surface algorithm
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '01
Continuous topology simplification of planar vector fields
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '01
Visualizing Nonlinear Vector Field Topology
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Detection and Visualization of Closed Streamlines in Planar Flows
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Topology-Preserving Smoothing of Vector Fields
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Visualizing Vector Field Topology in Fluid Flows
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
The Curvature of Characteristic Curves on Surfaces
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
VISSYM '03 Proceedings of the symposium on Data visualisation 2003
Improving topological segmentation of three-dimensional vector fields
VISSYM '03 Proceedings of the symposium on Data visualisation 2003
A tool for visualizing the topology of three-dimensional vector fields
VIS '91 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Visualization '91
Constructing stream surfaces in steady 3D vector fields
VIS '92 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Visualization '92
VIS '93 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Visualization '93
Saddle Connectors - An Approach to Visualizing the Topological Skeleton of Complex 3D Vector Fields
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Visualization 2003 (VIS'03)
Topological segmentation of three-dimensional vector fields
Topological segmentation of three-dimensional vector fields
Stream surface generation for fluid flow solutions on curvilinear grids
EGVISSYM'01 Proceedings of the 3rd Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG conference on Visualization
Topology-based visualization of time-dependent 2D vector fields
EGVISSYM'01 Proceedings of the 3rd Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG conference on Visualization
Stream Line and Path Line Oriented Topology for 2D Time-Dependent Vector Fields
VIS '04 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '04
Topological Methods for 2D Time-Dependent Vector Fields Based on Stream Lines and Path Lines
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Topological Lines in 3D Tensor Fields and Discriminant Hessian Factorization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Automatic Stream Surface Seeding: A Feature Centered Approach
Computer Graphics Forum
Magnetic Flux Topology of 2D Point Dipoles
Computer Graphics Forum
Path line oriented topology for periodic 2D time-dependent vector fields
EUROVIS'06 Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Visualization
Technical Section: Surface-based flow visualization
Computers and Graphics
Lagrangian visualization of flow-embedded surface structures
EuroVis'08 Proceedings of the 10th Joint Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
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One of the reasons that topological methods have a limited popularity for the visualization of complex 3D flow fields is the fact that their topological structures contain a number of separating stream surfaces. Since these stream surfaces tend to hide each other as well as other topological features, for complex 3D topologies the visualizations become cluttered and hardly interpretable. One solution of this problem is the recently introduced concept of saddle connectors which treats separation surfaces emanating from critical points. In this paper we extend this concept to separation surfaces starting from boundary switch curves. This way we obtain a number of particular stream lines called boundary switch connectors. They connect either two boundary switch curves or a boundary switch curve with a saddle. We discuss properties and computational issues of boundary switch connectors and apply them to topologically complex flow data.