Rendering surface-particles

  • Authors:
  • Jarke J. van Wijk

  • Affiliations:
  • Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN, Petten, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • VIS '92 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Visualization '92
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Surface-particles are very small facets, modeled as points with a normal. They can be used to visualize flow in several ways by variation of the properties of the particle sources. Here a new method is presented for the rendering of surface-particles. This method includes an improved shading model, the use of Gaussian filters for the prevention of spatial and temporal artifacts, an efficient scan-conversion algorithm, the handling of occlusion and the simultaneous rendering of geometric objects and surface-particles. The synthesis of images with limited depth of field is described, which literally allows the scientist to focus on areas of interest.