Summary

This project visualizes scalar fields. The data is stored in a 2d plane where every point has some scalar value. This could be temperature, energy, weight, anything really. That 2d plane is then transformed into a 3d plane and contour lines are drawn across the 3d plane at even “elevation” steps. I chose to color these contour lines as it accentuates what is high and low.

This project was also part of the scientific visualization course at OSU. Scalar visualizations are somewhat rare in actual use case. The simple methods we implored in this project can be expanded to 2d and 3d applications with some more work.