Real-Time Particle Systems and their Application to Flow Visualization Echtzeit-Partikelsysteme

flow particles path lines time surface streak lines streak volume Visualization of a typhoon flow (data set: courtesy of MPI for Meteorology) Acknowledgments First of all, I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Andreas Kolb for his long-time support and countless advices during my time as a PhD student at the University of Siegen. Being my supervisor, he has shown me the scientific way to interpret and solve problems. I thank the co-authors of all the papers and articles I worked on during my stay in Siegen: Dr. Robert Strzodka introduced me to particle level sets, and he gave me useful hints to adapt them for graphics hardware. I am very grateful to Prof. Dr. Weiskopf for accepting the co-advisorship of my PhD thesis and for helpful discussions related to the flow visualization aspects of my work. I would like to acknowledge the German Climate Computing Centre Hamburg for providing an interesting typhoon data set. Special thanks go to Michael Böttinger, who was our primary contact person. His knowledge of climate flow visualization aspects has been of great value. I also thank my colleagues, especially Marvin Lindner for his friendliness, his encouragement and for extensive discussions about every imaginable C++ language feature. Finally, the largest thanks belong to my parents, my brothers, my dear girlfriend, and my former schoolmates and fellow students, who all contributed to what I am now in their very own way