Superellipsoid-based, Real Symmetric Traceless Tensor Glyphs Motivated by Nematic Liquid Crystal Alignment VisualizationJournal Article
Keywords: scientific visualization, tensor visualization, symmetric traceless tensor, nematic liquid crystals
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Alex Pang, Eduard Gröller, and Cláudio Silva, eds., 2006 (to appear).
Abstract
A glyph-based method for visualizing the nematic liquid crystal alignment tensor is introduced. Unlike previous approaches, the glyph is based upon physically-linked metrics, not offsets of the eigenvalues. These metrics, combined with a set of superellipsoid shapes, communicate both the strength of the crystal's uniaxial alignment and the amount of biaxiality. With small modifications, our approach can visualize any real symmetric traceless tensor.
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BibTeX Citation
@article{Jankun-Kelly:2006:SbR,
Author = {T.J. Jankun-Kelly AND Ketan Mehta},
Title = {Superellipsoid-based, Real Symmetric Traceless Tensor Glyphs Motivated by Nematic Liquid Crystal Alignment Visualization},
Abstract = {A glyph-based method for visualizing the nematic liquid crystal alignment tensor is introduced. Unlike previous approaches, the glyph is based upon physically-linked metrics, not offsets of the eigenvalues. These metrics, combined with a set of superellipsoid shapes, communicate both the strength of the crystal's uniaxial alignment and the amount of biaxiality. With small modifications, our approach can visualize any real symmetric traceless tensor.},
Keywords = {scientific visualization, tensor visualization, symmetric traceless tensor, nematic liquid crystals},
Pages = {},
Year = {2006}
Journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization/Information Vsualization 2006)},
Volume = {12},
Number = {5},
Month = {September/October},
}
Contact
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly [tjk@cse.msstate.edu], Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University.
