Craig M. Wittenbrink and Alex T. Pang and Suresh K. Lodha.
Glyphs for Visualizing Uncertainty in Vector Fields.
In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 266--279, 1996.

Bibtex:

@Article{ 	wittenbrink:1996:GVUV,
  Author = 	"Craig M. Wittenbrink and Alex T. Pang and Suresh
                  K. Lodha",
  title = 	"Glyphs for Visualizing Uncertainty in Vector Fields",
  journal = 	"IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
                  Graphics",
  volume = 	"2",
  number = 	"3",
  pages = 	"266--279",
  month = 	"September",
  year = 	"1996",
}

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