Interactive Stream Surface Placement - A Hybrid Clustering Approach Supported by Tree Maps

M. Edmunds, R. S. Laramee, R. Malki, I. Masters, Y. Wang, G. Chen, E. Zhang, N. Max

2014

Abstract

The ability of a CFD engineer to study, capture, and visualise 3D flow simulation data is a challenge. Stream surfaces are a useful tool for visualising 3D flow because of their ability to convey many field attributes from their structure. It is important that the CFD engineer can interact with, and examine specific characteristics of the CFD data. We introduce an interactive, cluster based stream surface placement strategy for structured and unstructured CFD data. A two-phase hybrid clustering algorithm is used to visualise interesting subsets of the flow. An interactive tree map interface provides a visual overview and enables interactive selection of cluster details corresponding to interesting features of the data at which to place stream surfaces. We demonstrate the performance and effectiveness of our interactive framework on a range of flow simulations and provide domain expert evaluation of the results, providing valuable insight for the CFD engineers.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Edmunds M., Laramee R., Malki R., Masters I., Wang Y., Chen G., Zhang E. and Max N. (2014). Interactive Stream Surface Placement - A Hybrid Clustering Approach Supported by Tree Maps . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-005-5, pages 347-355. DOI: 10.5220/0004691503470355

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp14,
author={M. Edmunds and R. S. Laramee and R. Malki and I. Masters and Y. Wang and G. Chen and E. Zhang and N. Max},
title={Interactive Stream Surface Placement - A Hybrid Clustering Approach Supported by Tree Maps},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={347-355},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004691503470355},
isbn={978-989-758-005-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)
TI - Interactive Stream Surface Placement - A Hybrid Clustering Approach Supported by Tree Maps
SN - 978-989-758-005-5
AU - Edmunds M.
AU - Laramee R.
AU - Malki R.
AU - Masters I.
AU - Wang Y.
AU - Chen G.
AU - Zhang E.
AU - Max N.
PY - 2014
SP - 347
EP - 355
DO - 10.5220/0004691503470355