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Summary: Saddle Connectors - An Approach to Visualizing the Topological Skeleton
of Complex 3D Vector Fields
Holger Theisel
MPI Informatik Saarbrücken
Tino Weinkauf
Zuse Institute Berlin
Hans-Christian Hege
Zuse Institute Berlin
Hans-Peter Seidel §
MPI Informatik Saarbrücken
(a) Iconic representation. (b) Due to the shown separation surfaces, the
topological skeleton of the vector field looks
visually cluttered.
(c) Visualization of the topological skeleton using
saddle connectors.
Figure 1: Topological representations of the benzene data set with 184 critical points.
Abstract
One of the reasons that topological methods have a limited popu-
larity for the visualization of complex 3D flow fields is the fact that
such topological structures contain a number of separating stream
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