The Flow, data visualization tool was developed with the purpose of visualizing volumetric vector fields, with a particular emphasis on visualizing the groundwater flow on a specific section of the island of Oahu, Hawaii.

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This project was developed in the Unity Game Engine and coded with C# using their VFX Graph tool that empowers the GPU to render millions of streamlines at once. The vector field is encoded as a 3D Texture, with the X, Y, and Z components of each vector stored as floats where instead of color values. The GPU can use this information to apply an Euler integration, simulating particle movement through the vector field.

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Users can insert 3D models into the scene and add transparency to give context to the streamlines.