FEL: the Field Encapsulation Library

1 January 1996

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

p. 241-247
https://doi.org/10.1109/visual.1996.568115

Abstract

The paper describes the Field Encapsulation Library (FEL), which provides a grid independent application programmer's interface to gridded three dimensional field data. The C++ implementation of FEL is described, stressing the way in which the class hierarchy hides the underlying grid structure in a way that allows visualization algorithms to be written in a completely grid independent manner. Appropriately defined coordinate classes play an important role in providing this grid independence. High performance point location routines for data access are described and performance times are provided.

Keywords

ENCAPSULATION
LIBRARIES
DATA VISUALIZATION
COMPUTATIONAL MODELING
NASA
GRID COMPUTING
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
SOLID MODELING
GEOMETRY
OBJECT ORIENTED MODELING

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