@inproceedings{Mattausch-2003-Str,
title = "Strategies for Interactive Exploration of 3D Flow Using
Evenly-Spaced Illuminated Streamlines",
author = "Oliver Mattausch and Thomas Theu{\ss}l and Helwig Hauser
and Meister Eduard Gr{\"o}ller",
year = "2003",
pages = "213--222",
month = apr,
abstract = "This paper presents several strategies to interactively explore
3D flow. Based on a fast illuminated streamlines algorithm,
standard graphics hardware is sufficient to gain
interactive rendering rates. Our approach does not require
the user to have any prior knowledge of flow features.
After the streamlines are computed in a short preprocessing
time, the user can interactively change appearance
and density of the streamlines to further explore the
flow. Most important flow features like velocity or pressure
not only can be mapped to all available streamline appearance
properties like streamline width, material, opacity,
but also to streamline density. To improve spatial perception
of the 3D flow we apply techniques based on animation,
depth cueing, and halos along a streamline if it is
crossed by another streamline in the foreground. Finally,
we make intense use of focus+context methods like magic
volumes, region of interest driven streamline placing, and
spotlights to solve the occlusion problem."
booktitle = "Proceedings of Spring Conference on Computer Graphics",
editor = "K. Joy",
isbn = "158113861x",
publisher = "SCCG",
keywords = "flow visualization, streamlines, focus and context",
URL = "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2003/Mattausch-2003-Str/",
}