Quantitative comparative evaluation of 2D vector field visualization methods
David H. Laidlaw, Robert M. Kirby, James S. Davidson, Timothy S. Miller, M. da Silva, W. H. Warren, Michael J. Tarr · 2001
We present results from a user study that compared six visualization methods for 2D vector data. Two methods used different distributions of short arrows, two used different distributions of integral curves, one used wedges located to suggest flow lines, and the final was line-integral convolution (LIC). We defined three simple but representative tasks for users to perform using visualizations from each method: 1) locating all critical points in an image, 2) identifying critical point types, and 3) advecting a particle.