Streamsurface Smoke Effect for Visualizing Dragon Fly CFD Data in Modern OpenGL with an Emphasis on High Performance
Jordan Sipes · Journal of Bioresource Management · 2013
Streamsurface Smoke Effect for Visualizing Dragon Fly CFD Data in Modern OpenGL with an Emphasis on High Performance.Visualizing 3D, time dependent velocity vector fields is a difficult topic.Streamlines can be used to visualize 3D vector fields.A smoke effect where the streamline is faded out as time progresses can provide a better visualization of a time dependent flow.This work uses modern OpenGL to create a smoke trail effect with streamsurfaces in the dragon fly data set.Many aspects affecting performance are tested to determine the best options or approach.