Vector field visualization with streamlines

2006/10/14 by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Sparavigna, A., Bartolomeo Montrucchio +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies #Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques #Data Visualization and Analytics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Graphics (cs.GR)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/0610088

openalex publication_date 2006/10/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We have recently developed an algorithm for vector field visualization with oriented streamlines, able to depict the flow directions everywhere in a dense vector field and the sense of the local orientations. The algorithm has useful applications in the visualization of the director field in nematic liquid crystals. Here we propose an improvement of the algorithm able to enhance the visualization of the local magnitude of the field. This new approach of the algorithm is compared with the same procedure applied to the Line Integral Convolution (LIC) visualization.

Cited by

• Dipole Vectors in Images Processing

Related

• A Streamline Selection Technique Overlaying with Isosurfaces
• Direct interactive visualization of locally refined spline volumes for scalar and vector fields
• Interactive Illustrative Line Styles and Line Style Transfer Functions for Flow Visualization
• FieldView: An interactive software tool for exploration of three-dimensional vector fields
• A bisector line field approach to interpolation of orientation fields