Streamball techniques for flow visualization

Authors:
Manfred Brill;Hans Hagen;Hans-Christian Rodrian;Wladimir Djatschin;Stanislav V. Klimenko
Affiliations:
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany;University of Kaiserslautern, Germany;University of Kaiserslautern, Germany;Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Russia;Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Russia
Venue:
VIS '94 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '94
Year:
1994

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Abstract

We introduce the concept of streamballs for flow visualization. Streamballs are based upon implicit surface generation techniques adopted from the well-known metaballs. Their property to split or merge automatically in areas of significant divergence or convergence makes them an ideal tool for the visualization of arbitrary complex flow fields. Using convolution surfaces generated by continuous skeletons for streamball construction offers the possibility to visualize even tensor fields.