Visualization of irregular multivariate data

  • Authors:
  • Thomas A. Foley;David A. Lane

  • Affiliations:
  • Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ;Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

  • Venue:
  • VIS '90 Proceedings of the 1st conference on Visualization '90
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

Scientific data is often sampled at irregular spatial locations because of physical constraints, yet most visualization software applies only to gridded or regular data. We will discuss effective techniques for representing scalar and vector valued functions that interpolate to irregularly located data. Special attention will be given to the situations where the sampling domain is a 2D plane, a 3D volume, or a closed 3D surface. The globally defined interpolants can be evaluated on a fine regular grid and they can then be visualized using conventional techniques. Triangular and tetrahedral based visualization techniques are also presented.