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Item State-of-the-Art Report on Optimizing Particle Advection Performance(The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2023) Yenpure, Abhishek; Sane, Sudhanshu; Binyahib, Roba; Pugmire, David; Garth, Christoph; Childs, Hank; Bruckner, Stefan; Raidou, Renata G.; Turkay, CagatayThe computational work to perform particle advection-based flow visualization techniques varies based on many factors, including number of particles, duration, and mesh type. In many cases, the total work is significant, and total execution time (''performance'') is a critical issue. This state-of-the-art report considers existing optimizations for particle advection, using two high-level categories: algorithmic optimizations and hardware efficiency. The sub-categories for algorithmic optimizations include solvers, cell locators, I/O efficiency, and precomputation, while the sub-categories for hardware efficiency all involve parallelism: shared-memory, distributed-memory, and hybrid. Finally, this STAR concludes by identifying current gaps in our understanding of particle advection performance and its optimizations.Item A Survey of Seed Placement and Streamline Selection Techniques(The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2020) Sane, Sudhanshu; Bujack, Roxana; Garth, Christoph; Childs, Hank; Smit, Noeska and Oeltze-Jafra, Steffen and Wang, BeiStreamlines are an extensively utilized flow visualization technique for understanding, verifying, and exploring computational fluid dynamics simulations. One of the major challenges associated with the technique is selecting which streamlines to display. Using a large number of streamlines results in dense, cluttered visualizations, often containing redundant information and occluding important regions, whereas using a small number of streamlines could result in missing key features of the flow. Many solutions to select a representative set of streamlines have been proposed by researchers over the past two decades. In this state-of-the-art report, we analyze and classify seed placement and streamline selection (SPSS) techniques used by the scientific flow visualization community. At a high-level, we classify techniques into automatic and manual techniques, and further divide automatic techniques into three strategies: density-based, feature-based, and similarity-based. Our analysis evaluates the identified strategy groups with respect to focus on regions of interest, minimization of redundancy, and overall computational performance. Finally, we consider the application contexts and tasks for which SPSS techniques are currently applied and have potential applications in the future.