Title
Compression-based integral curve data reuse framework for flow visualization.
Abstract
Currently, by default, integral curves are repeatedly re-computed in different flow visualization applications, such as FTLE field computation, source-destination queries, etc., leading to unnecessary resource cost. We present a compression-based data reuse framework for integral curves, to greatly reduce their retrieval cost, especially in a resource-limited environment. In our design, a hierarchical and hybrid compression scheme is proposed to balance three objectives, including high compression ratio, controllable error, and low decompression cost. Specifically, we use and combine digitized curve sparse representation, floating-point data compression, and octree space partitioning to adaptively achieve the objectives. Results have shown that our data reuse framework could acquire tens of times acceleration in the resource-limited environment compared to on-the-fly particle tracing, and keep controllable information loss. Moreover, our method could provide fast integral curve retrieval for more complex data, such as unstructured mesh data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12650-017-0428-4
J. Visualization
Keywords
Field
DocType
Flow visualization,Integral curves,Flow lines,High performance visualization,Data compression,Information retrieval
Compression (physics),Computer graphics (images),Integral curve,Computer science,Data compression,Flow visualization,Data reuse
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
4
1343-8875
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
24
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fan Hong1404.32
Chongke Bi2166.52
Hanqi Guo333823.06
Kenji Ono4219.22
Xiaoru Yuan5115770.28