PHYSICS SEMINAR
TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SCALAR FIELDS
Dr. Madjid Allili
Bishop's University
Friday, March 26, 2010
1:30 p.m.
Nicolls 1
Scalar fields are the representation of terrains based on surface elevation data under planar domains. They constitute an important modeling and visualization tool in several areas - flight and ground vehicle simulators, video games, and geographic information systems (GIS) are obvious examples. We discuss the problem of analyzing the topology of a given discrete scalar field defined on a triangulated or cubical two or higher dimensional domain for the purpose of efficient representation and visualization
