Eurographics 2002 STAR – State of The Art Report Feature Extraction and Visualisation of F.pdf

EUROGRAPHICS 2002 STAR – State of The Art Report Feature Extraction and Visualisation of Flow Fields Frits H. Post, Benjamin Vrolijk and Helwig Hauser, Robert S. Laramee, Helmut Doleisch {F.H.Post,B.Vrolijk}@its.tudelft.nl {Hauser,Laramee,Doleisch}@vrvis.at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands VRVis Research Center, Austria http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/ http://www.vrvis.at/ Abstract Flow visualisation has already been a very attractive part of visualisation research for a long time. Usually very large data sets need to be pr ocessed, which often consist of multivariate data with a large number of sample locations, often arranged in multiple time steps. Recently, the steadily increasing performance of computers again has become a driving factor for a new boom in flow visualisation, especially in techniques based on featur e extraction, vectorfield clustering, and topology extraction. In this state-of-the-art report, an attempt was made to (1) pr ovide a useful categorisation of FlowVis solutions, (2) give an overview of existing solutions, and (3)focus on recent work, especially in thefield offeatur e extraction. In separate sections we describe (a) direct visualisation techniques such as hedgehog plots, (b) visualisation using integral objects, such as streamlines, (c) texture-based techniques, including spot noise and line integral convolution, and (d) techniques based on extraction offeatur es orflow topology. Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM