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This paper looks at how a commercial visualization system was used to produce interactive visualizations of simulated Eletromagnetic data. By firstly looking at techniques available for viewing vectors on an unstructured grid, an idea is given of the weaknesses in the system. The user of the simulation package takes advantage of symmetry within the problem to reduce the amount of computation required. Rather than duplicate unstructured grid data, a simple mirror tool has been developed to duplicate geometries instead.
Finally, a description is made of how the techniques were used to perceive the changing flow in time-varying 3D vector field data.
Many thanks go to Dr. C.R.I. Emson from Vector Fields Ltd., for supplying the data and for feedback on the visualizations
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Haswell, J. (1995). Visualizing Electromagnetic Data. In: Grinstein, G., Levkowitz, H. (eds) Perceptual Issues in Visualization. IFIP Series on Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79057-7_10
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