Vector Plots for Irregular Grids

  • Authors:
  • Don Dovey

  • Affiliations:
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Venue:
  • VIS '95 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Visualization '95
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

A standard method for visualizing vector fields consists of drawing many small ``glyphs'' to represent the field. This paper extends the technique from regular to curvilinear and unstructured grids. In order to achieve a uniform density of vector glyphs on nonuniformly spaced grids, the paper describes two approaches to resampling the grid data. One of the methods, an element-based resampling, can be used to visualize vector fields at arbitrary surfaces within three-dimensional grids.