scientific visualization Scientific visualization ( also spelled scientific visualisation) is an interdisciplinary branch of science concerned with the visualization of scientific phenomena. Michael Friendly (2008)"Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, st ...

a streamsurface is the 3D

generalization A generalization is a form of abstraction whereby common properties of specific instances are formulated as general concepts or claims. Generalizations posit the existence of a domain or set of elements, as well as one or more common character ...

of a

streamline Streamline may refer to: Business * Streamline Air, American regional airline * Adobe Streamline, a discontinued line tracing program made by Adobe Systems * Streamline Cars, the company responsible for making the Burney car Engineering ...

. It is the union of all streamlines seeded densely on a curve. Like a streamline, a streamsurface is used to visualize flows – three-dimensional flows in this case. Specifically, it is "the locus of an infinite set of such curves treamlines/nowiki>, rooted at every point along a continuous originating line segment."

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