Tensor splats

Werner Benger; Hans-Christian Hege

doi:10.1117/12.549300

4 June 2004 Tensor splats

Werner Benger, Hans-Christian Hege

Proceedings Volume 5295, Visualization and Data Analysis 2004; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.549300
Event: Electronic Imaging 2004, 2004, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

A new general-purpose technique for the visualization of time-dependent Symmetric positive definite tensor fields of rank two is described. It is based on a splatting technique that is built from tiny transparent glyph primitives which are capable of incorporating the full directional information content of a tensor. The result is an information-rich image that allows to read off the preferred directions in a tensor field. It is useful for analyzing slices or volumes of a three-dimensional tensor field and can be overlayed with standard volume rendering or color mapping. The application of the rendering technique is demonstrated on numerically simulated general relativistic data and a measured diffusion tensor field of a human brain.

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Werner Benger and Hans-Christian Hege "Tensor splats", Proc. SPIE 5295, Visualization and Data Analysis 2004, (4 June 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.549300

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