Illustration and Photography Inspired Visualization of Flows and Volumes

Understanding and analyzing complex volumetrically varying data is a difficult problem. Many computational visualization techniques have had only limited success in succinctly portraying the structure of three-dimensional turbulent flow. Motivated by both the extensive history and success of illustration and photographic flow visualization techniques, we have developed a new interactive volume rendering and visualization system for flows and volumes that simulates and enhances traditional illustration, experimental advection, and photographic flow visualization techniques. Our system uses a combination of varying focal and contextual illustrative styles, new advanced two-dimensional transfer functions, enhanced Schlieren and shadowgraphy shaders, and novel oriented structure enhancement techniques to allow interactive visualization, exploration, and comparative analysis of scalar, vector, and time-varying volume datasets. Both traditional illustration techniques and photographic ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: VISUALIZATION
• Authors: Nikolai A. Svakhine, Yun Jang, David S. Ebert, Kelly P. Gaither
• Keywords: Photographic flow Visualization, Visualization, VISUALIZATION 2005, Visualization Techniques, flow Visualization Techniques