A Study on the Thick Oriented Stream-Line algorithm
Zhang Don · Journal of Wuyi University · 2014
The visualization of dense vector elds has important applications for scientic purposes.Beyond the standard methods,such as arrows and particle tracing,texture-based methods are able to show almost all the details of a eld.This paper presents the Thick Oriented Stream-Line algorithm,which can show direction,orientation and local ow speed even for dense vector elds by simulating the convolution process.A practical comparison of the performances of Thick Oriented Stream-Line algorithm vs.other visualizations algorithms(LIC and fastLIC) shows that the proposed algorithm can provide output textures faster than the other considered techniques.