Visualizing high-order symmetric tensor field structure with differential operators

DOI10.1155/2011/142923MaRDI QIDQ554983zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tim McGraw, Takamitsu Kawai, Inas Yassine, Lierong Zhu

Publication date 22 July 2011

Published in Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/142923

zbMATH Keywords

degenerate pointsregions of homogeneous behaviortensor field visualization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis (53A45) Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18) Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05)

Review text

Summary: The challenge of tensor field visualization is to provide simple and comprehensible representations of data which vary both directionally and spatially. We explore the use of differential operators to extract features from tensor fields. These features can be used to generate skeleton representations of the data that accurately characterize the global field structure. Previously, vector field operators such as gradient, divergence, and curl have previously been used to visualize of flow fields. In this paper, we use generalizations of these operators to locate and classify tensor field degenerate points and to partition the field into regions of homogeneous behavior. We describe the implementation of our feature extraction and demonstrate our new techniques on synthetic data sets of order 2, 3 and 4.

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