Discussion

Most approaches of either visualizing the geometry of behavior or, on the other hand, directly representing flow dynamics, have advantages and disadvantages. Visualizing the topology of behavior facilitates a dense and abstract description of the flow dynamics. Directly visualizing the vector field yields more intuitive representations of the dynamical system by simultaneously lacking completeness.

In this chapter two techniques were presented that belong to both classes and demonstrate how a combination of both can be used to achieve a more expressive visualization method. Enhancing the abstract information by cues of direct visualization helps the viewer to more intuitively depict flow motion within critical regions.

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