Technology of automobile and visualization studies

Computer simulation and visualization techniques for automotive studies are reviewed through the history of computer-aided visualization techniques to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Journal of Visualization. Future direction of visualization study is also mentioned through the introduction of up-to-dated numerical visualizations.     

A numerical visualization technique based on the hydraulic analogy

Journal of Visualization - The principles of experimental visualization are widely used in developing numerical visualization techniques. Numerous techniques have been created by the simulation of...     

Progress of visualization

Visualization is an interdisciplinary imaging technique devoted to make the invisible visible by the techniques of experimental and computer-aided visualizations. It is applicable to various phenomena such as flow, heat, sound, electromagnetism, chemical kinetics and any of their combinations. This review describes the process of development, the present state and fruit of application, and the expectation of future development of visualization using examples. These examples expand to a wide range of fields including engineering, physics, medical science, agriculture, oceanography, meteorology and sports science.     

Multi-threaded parallel projection tetrahedral algorithm for unstructured volume rendering

Journal of Visualization - Volume rendering methods have been extensively studied in recent years due to their effectiveness and expressiveness for unstructured grid data visualization. Although...     

Examining interaction techniques in data visualization authoring tools from the perspective of goals and human cognition: a survey

Journal of Visualization - We review the state-of-the-art interaction techniques of visualization authoring tools. The visualization tools tend to help users in the creation, exploration, or...     

Helmholtz–Hodge decomposition-based 2D and 3D ocean surface current visualization for mesoscale eddy detection

Journal of Visualization - Ocean surface current (or ocean flow) visualization plays a significant role in the understanding of dynamical processes of ocean. It has been a hot research topic in...     

Smoke streak visualization of steady flows over a spinning cone at angle of attack in flight

Journal of Visualization - A smoke streak visualization technique is employed to observe the steady flow field over a cone of a half angle of $$\theta _c = 30^\circ $$, spinning at an angular speed...     

A survey on visualization approaches for exploring association relationships in graph data

Journal of Visualization - Exploring relationships in complex datasets is one of the challenges in today’s big data era. The graph-based visualization approach, which integrates the...     

Gaussian mixture model-based target feature extraction and visualization

Journal of Visualization - Effective extraction and visualization of complex target features from volume data are an important task, which allows the user to analyze and get insights of the complex...     

A systematic literature review of modern software visualization

Journal of Visualization - We report on the state-of-the-art of software visualization. To ensure reproducibility, we adopted the Systematic Literature Review methodology. That is, we analyzed 1440...     

Click or not: different mouseover effects may affect clicking-through rate while browsing interactive information visualization

Journal of Visualization - Given the thriving of information visualization systems, rich interactivity is expected and essential for users to acquire further and insightful information. Mouseover...     

A survey on visualization of tensor field

Journal of Visualization - Tensor field has been widely used in various applications, such as medical imaging, industrial manufacturing, high-dimensional data analysis, and so forth. However, it is...     

Schlieren visualization of micro gas turbine exhaust plume with different shapes of nozzle

Journal of Visualization - Schlieren visualization of the plume ejected from the microgas turbine nozzle was conducted to understand infrared signal characteristics of various shapes of the exhaust...     

Streamline querying based on finite substructures

Journal of Visualization - Streamline querying is one of the important research directions in flow visualization, which can be widely used in streamline clustering, feature detection, etc. And the...     

Improvement in interactive remote in situ visualization using SIMD-aware function parser and asynchronous data I/O

Journal of Visualization - An in situ visualization system based on the particle-based volume rendering offers a highly scalable and flexible visual analytics environment based on multivariate...     

Comparison of turbulent flow measurement schemes for 4D flow MRI

Journal of Visualization - Recently, time-resolved 3D phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging, which is also called 4D flow MRI or 4D PC-MRI, has been widely utilized to investigate spatial and...     

A composition-free parallel volume rendering method

Journal of Visualization - In the in situ visualization of large-scale simulation, if using the traditional sort-last parallel rendering method, the performance cannot be fully improved due to the...     

Lumina: an adaptive,automated and extensible prototype for exploring,enriching and visualizing data

Journal of Visualization - Given a tabular dataset which should be graphically represented, how could the current complex visualization pipeline be improved? Could we produce a more visually...     

Development on the reconstruction of photothermal imaging method for subsurface structure

Journal of Visualization - The photothermal imaging technique is a nondestructive inspection technique that visualizes the inside of a metal by utilizing the photothermal effect. Although the...     

Interaction of loosely packed bubbly flow passing through a pore space

Journal of Visualization - The interactions of the bubbles in a loosely packed bubbly flow in a high viscous fluid approaching a pore space are studied using a shadowgraph imaging technique. The...