HARDWARE-ACCELERATED WEB VISUALIZATION OF VECTOR FIELDS - Case Study in Oceanic Currents

Mauricio Aristizabal, John Congote, Alvaro Segura, Aitor Moreno, Harbil Arregui, Oscar Ruiz

2012

Abstract

Visualization of vector fields plays an important role in research activities nowadays. Increasing web applications allow a fast, multi-platform and multi-device access to data. As a result, web applications must be optimized in order to be performed heterogeneously as well as on high-performance as on low capacity devices. This paper presents a hardware-accelerated scheme for integration-based flow visualization techniques, based on a hierarchical integration procedure which reduces the computational effort of the algorithm from linear to logarithmic, compared to serial integration methodologies. The contribution relies on the fact that the optimization is only implemented using the graphics application programming interface (API), instead of requiring additional APIs or plug-ins. This is achieved by using images as data storing elements instead of graphical information matrices. A case study in oceanic currents is implemented.

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Aristizabal M., Congote J., Segura A., Moreno A., Arregui H. and Ruiz O. (2012). HARDWARE-ACCELERATED WEB VISUALIZATION OF VECTOR FIELDS - Case Study in Oceanic Currents . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-02-0, pages 759-763. DOI: 10.5220/0003843707590763


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@conference{ivapp12,
author={Mauricio Aristizabal and John Congote and Alvaro Segura and Aitor Moreno and Harbil Arregui and Oscar Ruiz},
title={HARDWARE-ACCELERATED WEB VISUALIZATION OF VECTOR FIELDS - Case Study in Oceanic Currents},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={759-763},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003843707590763},
isbn={978-989-8565-02-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - HARDWARE-ACCELERATED WEB VISUALIZATION OF VECTOR FIELDS - Case Study in Oceanic Currents
SN - 978-989-8565-02-0
AU - Aristizabal M.
AU - Congote J.
AU - Segura A.
AU - Moreno A.
AU - Arregui H.
AU - Ruiz O.
PY - 2012
SP - 759
EP - 763
DO - 10.5220/0003843707590763