Streamball techniques for flow visualization
Manfred Brill, Hans Hagen, Hans-Christian Rodrian, Wladimir Djatschin, Stanislav Klimenko · OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) · 1994
The authors introduce the concept of streamballs for fluid flow visualization. Streamballs are based upon implicit surface generation techniques adopted from the well-known metaballs. Their property to split or merge automatically in areas of significant divergence or convergence makes them an ideal tool for the visualization of arbitrary complex flow fields. Using convolution surfaces generated by continuous skeletons for streamball construction offers the possibility to visualize even tensor fields. (orig.)