Identification and classification of off-vertex critical points for contour tree construction on unstructured meshes of hexahedra
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Author(s)
Koch, Marius Klaus
Kelly, Paul HJ
Vincent, Peter
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The topology of isosurfaces changes at isovalues of critical points, making such points an important feature when building contour trees or Morse-Smale complexes. Hexahedral elements with linear interpolants can contain additional off-vertex critical points in element bodies and on element faces. Moreover, a point on the face of a hexahedron which is critical in the element-local context is not necessarily critical in the global context. In ‘`Exploring Scalar Fields Using Critical Isovalues’' Weber et al. introduce a method to determine whether critical points on faces are also critical in the global context, based on the gradient of the asymptotic decider in each element that shares the face. However, as defined, the method of Weber et al. contains an error, and can lead to incorrect results. In this work we correct the error.
Date Issued
2022-12-01
Date Acceptance
2021-04-01
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2022, 28 (12), pp.5178-5180
ISSN
1077-2626
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Start Page
5178
End Page
5180
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Volume
28
Issue
12
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
The Leverhulme Trust
The Leverhulme Trust
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9409737
Grant Number
EP/L000407/1
EP/R029423/1
EP/K027379/1
EP/R030340/1
PLP-2016-196
PLP-2016-196
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Computer Science
Faces
Isosurfaces
Three-dimensional displays
Visualization
Topology
Inspection
Buildings
Isosurface
critical points
hexahedra
contour tree
Software Engineering
0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
0802 Computation Theory and Mathematics
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-04-20