Texture Based Flow Visualization in Augmented and Virtual Reality Environments

Virtual and Augmented Reality allows a new way of result exploration of numerical simulations, its analysis and interpretation by immersing the user into the data sets and/or by keeping the relationship and context to the real environment. Up to date only a few approaches targeting the deployment of augmented reality during the analysis stage have been published. New texture based visualization tools emerged and conciliate a better understanding of the flow fields. This paper describes our approach for integrating texture based visualization methods within a mixed reality set-up by introducing a `low cost', fully 3D interactive post processing unit for CFD data sets. . Keywords flow visualization, texture based algorithms, virtual reality, augmented reality.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WSCG
• Authors: Paul Benölken, Holger Graf, André Stork
• Keywords: Augmented Reality, Data Sets, Texture Based Visualization, WSCG 2004