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Analyzing the effect of lossy compression on particle traces in turbulent vector fields

  • Technical University of Munich

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Abstract

We shed light on the accuracy of particle trajectories in turbulent vector fields when lossy data compression is used. So far, data compression has been considered rather hesitantly due to supposed accuracy issues. Motivated by the observation that particle traces are always afflicted with inaccuracy, we quantitatively analyze the additional inaccuracies caused by lossy compression. In some experiments we confirm that the compression has only minor impact on the accuracy of the trajectories. Even though our experiments are not generally valid, they indicate that a more thorough analysis of the error in particle integration due to compression is necessary, and that in some cases lossy compression is valid and can significantly reduce performance limitations due to memory and communication bandwidth.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIVAPP 2015 - 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications; VISIGRAPP, Proceedings
EditorsJose Braz, Andreas Kerren, Lars Linsen
PublisherSciTePress
Pages279-288
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9789897580888
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2015 - Berlin, Germany
Duration: 11 Mar 201514 Mar 2015

Publication series

NameIVAPP 2015 - 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications; VISIGRAPP, Proceedings

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2015
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBerlin
Period11/03/1514/03/15

Keywords

  • Data compression
  • Data streaming
  • Particle tracing
  • Turbulence
  • Vector fields

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