Title
Point Movement in a DSL for Higher-Order FEM Visualization.
Abstract
Scientific visualization tools tend to be flexible in some ways (e.g., for exploring isovalues) while restricted in other ways, such as working only on regular grids, or only on unstructured meshes (as used in the finite element method, FEM). Our work seeks to expose the common structure of visualization methods, apart from the specifics of how the fields being visualized are formed. Recognizing that previous approaches to FEM visualization depend on efficiently updating computed positions within a mesh, we took an existing visualization domain-specific language, and added a mesh position type and associated arithmetic operators. These are orthogonal to the visualization method itself, so existing programs for visualizing regular grid data work, with minimal changes, on higher-order FEM data. We reproduce the efficiency gains of an earlier guided search method of mesh position update for computing streamlines, and we demonstrate a novel ability to uniformly sample ridge surfaces of higher-order FEM solutions defined on curved meshes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/VISUAL.2019.8933623
VIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Finite element analysis,Data visualization,DSL,Tools,Rendering (computer graphics),Visualization,Geometry
Polygon mesh,Regular grid,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Visualization,Digital subscriber line,Finite element method,Theoretical computer science,Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines,Scientific visualization,Arithmetic operators
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-4941-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Teodoro Collin100.34
Charisee Chiw2273.29
L. Ridgway Scott3153.63
John H. Reppy489984.36
Gordon Kindlmann51598103.52