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Related Work2.2. Flow Visualization AlgorithmsFigure 2.32: Image Space Advection on GPU [GL05]: This is a water jacket of a 4 cylinder 4 valuescombustion engine. Color is mapped to velocity magnitude.• Texture Advection for Unsteady FlowOne of the first papers on hardware accelerated texture advection [BJH00] wasjust the staring point for many papers on that very topic.• Texture Advection in 3DSince vertex shaders and pixel shaders got so powerful animated textures similarto LIC are now rendered on the GPU [RSL04] [GL05]. Even arbitrary surfacetopology is no limit to that algorithm (see figure 2.32). Also texture advectioncreating visual plausible animated textures were ported to the GPU usingshaders [PN01].Figure 2.33: LIC on cylinder head of combustion engine (top view)[GL05]. Blue circular regions markborehole of valves.32