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Streamarrows are a technique to enhance the use of stream-surfaces by separating arrow-shaped portions from the remaining stream- surface. We present a hierarchical streamarrows algorithm as an extension to this technique: Streamarrows are locally chosen from a stack of scaled streamarrows textures to avoid too big or small streamarrows in the rendered image. We furthermore present techniques how stream- arrows can be extended into 3D, namely perpendicular to the stream- surface: streamarrows can be shifted slightly out of the streamsurface. Another extension in this category is to represent the outline of stream- arrows as 3D tubes. We show a set of images which have been rendered using this technique and report about ongoing research.
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Löffelmann, H., Mroz, L., Gröller, E. (1997). Hierarchical Streamarrows for the Visualization of Dynamical Systems. In: Lefer, W., Grave, M. (eds) Visualization in Scientific Computing ’97. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6876-9_14
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