VISUALIZING MULTIPLE SCALAR FIELDS ON A SURFACE

Mohammed Mostefa Mesmoudi, Leila De Floriani, Paola Magillo

2008

Abstract

We present a new technique for the simultaneous visualization of an arbitrary number of scalar fields defined on a surface. The technique is called Generalized Atmosphere Upper Bound Level (GAUBL), since it is an evolution of our previous AUBL technique, that allowed for the visualization of a single scalar field. The generalized AUBL can highlight the dependencies and interactions between many scalar fields, and can handle a multi-valued scalar field as a special case. We have implemented the GAUBL into a visualization tool that handles triangle-based surface models, and we show here some experimental results.

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Mostefa Mesmoudi M., De Floriani L. and Magillo P. (2008). VISUALIZING MULTIPLE SCALAR FIELDS ON A SURFACE . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-20-3, pages 138-142. DOI: 10.5220/0001097201380142


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp08,
author={Mohammed Mostefa Mesmoudi and Leila De Floriani and Paola Magillo},
title={VISUALIZING MULTIPLE SCALAR FIELDS ON A SURFACE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={138-142},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001097201380142},
isbn={978-989-8111-20-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - VISUALIZING MULTIPLE SCALAR FIELDS ON A SURFACE
SN - 978-989-8111-20-3
AU - Mostefa Mesmoudi M.
AU - De Floriani L.
AU - Magillo P.
PY - 2008
SP - 138
EP - 142
DO - 10.5220/0001097201380142