Information Entropy-Based Texture Adaptation for 3D Vector Field Visualization

Abstract:

Texture adaptation is a challenging issue in texture-based feature visualization. In order to visualize as more information as we can, this paper presents a texture adaptation technique based on extended information entropy. A new definition of information entropy for 3D vector field is proposed to quantitatively represent the information carried by them. A discussion of results is included to demonstrate our algorithm which leads to a more reasonable visualization results based on texture adaption with information entropy.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 543-547)
• Pages: 1631-1634
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.543-547.1631
• Online since: March 2014
• Authors: Huai Hui Wang*, Si Kun Li
• Keywords: 3D LIC, Information Entropy, Texture Adaption, Vortex Detection

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