Volume 37 (2018)

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Visualization of 4D Vector Field Topology
(The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018) Hofmann, Lutz; Rieck, Bastian; Sadlo, Filip; Jeffrey Heer and Heike Leitte and Timo Ropinski
In this paper, we present an approach to the topological analysis of four-dimensional vector fields. In analogy to traditional 2D and 3D vector field topology, we provide a classification and visual representation of critical points, together with a technique for extracting their invariant manifolds. For effective exploration of the resulting four-dimensional structures, we present a 4D camera that provides concise representation by exploiting projection degeneracies, and a 4D clipping approach that avoids self-intersection in the 3D projection. We exemplify the properties and the utility of our approach using specific synthetic cases.