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16.3.0.1 Icon Based

Icon based techniques render a 3D geometric object (cone, arrow, etc) at each sample point with the geometry aligned with the vector direction at that point. Other attributes such as object size or color can be used to encode a scalar quantity such as the magnitude of the vector at each sample point.



David Blythe
1999-08-06