Illustrative Line Styles for Flow Visualization

Maarten Everts (1) , Henk Bekker (2) , Jos B. T. M. Roerdink (2) , Tobias Isenberg (2, 3, 4, 5)

1 SVCG - Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics
2 Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
3 AVIZ - Analysis and Visualization
4 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur
5 DIGITEO - RTRA DIGITEO

We present a flexible illustrative line style model for the visualization of streamline data. Our model partitions view-oriented line strips into parallel bands whose basic visual properties can be controlled independently. We thus extend previous line stylization techniques specifically for visualization purposes by allowing the parametrization of these bands based on the local line data attributes. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our model by applying it to 3D flow field datasets.

Domains: Graphics [cs.GR]

Maarten Everts, Henk Bekker, Jos B. T. M. Roerdink, Tobias Isenberg. Illustrative Line Styles for Flow Visualization. Short Paper Proceedings of the 19th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2011, September 21-23, 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Sep 2011, Goslar, Germany. pp.105-110, ⟨10.2312/PE/PG/PG2011short/105-110⟩. ⟨hal-00781511⟩