The State of the Art in Flow Visualization: Partition-Based Techniques

Abstract

Flow visualization has been a very active subfield of scientific visualization in recent\nyears. From the resulting large variety of methods this paper discusses partition-based techniques. The aim of these approaches is to partition the flow in areas of common structure. Based on this partitioning, subsequent visualization techniques can be applied. A classification is suggested and advantages/disadvantages of the different techniques are discussed as well.