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Chapter 4 Vortex detection - Computer Graphics and Visualization

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<strong>Chapter</strong> 2<br />

Geometry extraction techniques<br />

Bengawan Solo, . . . 1<br />

Mata airmu dari Solo<br />

terkurung gunung seribu<br />

Air mengalir sampai jauh<br />

akhirnya ke laut.<br />

This chapter reviews related work concerning geometry extraction. The purposes of<br />

this chapter are to show the context of our work <strong>and</strong> to provide a basis for the discussions<br />

in the following chapters.<br />

As stated in <strong>Chapter</strong> 1, it is possibly to classify visualization techniques as direct<br />

techniques, geometric techniques, <strong>and</strong> feature-based techniques [Post et al., 1999]. The<br />

focus in this thesis is on geometric techniques, although sometimes we employ elements<br />

from feature-based techniques as well. Geometric techniques produce geometries,<br />

which have two important advantages:<br />

¯ geometries are easy for people to interpret. The visual system of the human<br />

brain is well adapted to recognizing shapes <strong>and</strong> colour properties of geometries<br />

like surfaces <strong>and</strong> curves.<br />

¯ geometries are easy for computers to display. Modern hardware systems of computers<br />

are specialized in rendering lines <strong>and</strong> surfaces with colours <strong>and</strong> textures,<br />

to create a clear representation.<br />

Several important types of geometries are:<br />

¯ curves<br />

¯ surfaces<br />

¯ solids<br />

¯ deformable models<br />

Curves are often used to get a global view of the flow field. Surfaces are often used<br />

to get a local view of specific surface features, such as stream surfaces or separation<br />

surfaces. Deformable models are a special type of curves <strong>and</strong> surfaces, which start<br />

from some initial shape, <strong>and</strong> grow or shrink towards some target shape of a feature. In<br />

addition, a vortex is not a type of geometry, but a type of feature in fluid flows, which<br />

may be represented by various types of geometries, such as curves <strong>and</strong> surfaces.<br />

The remainder of this chapter is organized as follows. Section 2.1 gives definitions<br />

of several kinds of data fields <strong>and</strong> grids. Section 2.2 describes various flow curves,<br />

1 Solo River, ...//Yoursource is in Solo // confined by a thous<strong>and</strong> mountains // Your water flows quite<br />

far // <strong>and</strong> finally into the sea. (Indonesian traditional)<br />

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