The design and implementation of an interactive spot noise algorithm is presented. Spot noise is a technique which utilizes texture for the visualization of flow fields. Various design tradeoffs are discussed that allow an optimal implementation on a range of high end graphical workstations. Two applications are given: the steering of a smog prediction simulation and browsing a very large data set resulting from a direct numerical simulation of turbulence. These applications provide the motivation for the need of interactive visualization techniques.

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Software Engineering [SEN]
Visualization and 3D User Interfaces

de Leeuw, W., & van Liere, R. (1997). Divide and conquer spot noise. Software Engineering [SEN]. CWI.