Simplifying morphological representations of 2D and 3D scalar fields

TitleSimplifying morphological representations of 2D and 3D scalar fields
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsČomić L, De Floriani L, Iuricich F
Conference NameProceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
Date Published2011///
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-1031-4
Keywordsmorphological representations, Morse complexes, multi-dimensional data sets, simplification
Abstract

We describe a dual graph-based representation for the ascending and descending Morse complexes of a scalar field, and a compact and dimension-independent data structure based on it, which assumes a discrete representation of the field as a simplicial mesh. We present atomic dimension-independent simplification operators on the graph-based representation. Based on such operators, we have developed a simplification algorithm, which allows generalization of the ascending and descending Morse complexes at different levels of resolution. We show here the results of our implementation, discussing the computation times and the size of the resulting simplified graphs, also in comparison with the size of the original full-resolution graph.

URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2093973.2094042
DOI10.1145/2093973.2094042