The “parallel vectors” operator: a vector field visualization primitive

  • Authors:
  • Ronald Peikert;Martin Roth

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Graphics Research Group, Dept. of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland;Computer Graphics Research Group, Dept. of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • VIS '99 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '99: celebrating ten years
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

In this paper we propose an elementary operation on a pair of vector fields as a building block for defining and computing global line-type features of vector or scalar fields. While usual feature definitions often are procedural and therefore implicit, our operator allows precise mathematical definitions. It can serve as a basis for comparing feature definitions and for reuse of algorithms and implementations. Applications focus on vortex core methods.