Ralf P. Botchen and Daniel Weiskopf and Thomas Ertl.
Interactive visualisation of uncertainty in flow fields using texture-based techniques.
In 12th Iternational Symposium on Flow Visualisation, 2006.

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We describe texture-based flow visualization techniques that bring out the uncertainties in real-world measured flow data or highlight the deviation of scenarios simulated with different numerical techniques. One visualization approach is based on a generic texture-filtering process that improves the perception of uncertainty-affected regions; the other approach focuses on a user-adjusted color coding of uncertainty. Both methods are implemented on graphics hardware and facilitate interactive visualization. The usefulness of these techniques is demonstrated for examples of simulation and PIVdata sets.

Bibtex:

@InProceedings{  botchen:2006:IVUF,
  author = 	 {Ralf P. Botchen and Daniel Weiskopf and Thomas Ertl},
  title = 	 {Interactive visualisation of uncertainty in flow
                 fields using texture-based techniques},
  booktitle =    {12th Iternational Symposium on Flow Visualisation},
  year = 	 {2006},
}

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