Visualization of numerical simulations is of fundamental importance for presentation and interpretation of data. In the context of groundwater modeling, several classical methods, ranging from streamline to vector plots, have been successfully applied to flow visualization. Recently, a new class of visualization methods, named texture synthesis, has been developed for the representation of vector fields. Herein one of these methods, the line integral convolution (LIC), is applied to groundwater flow in a two dimensional aquifer. This technique, producing both single images and animations, creates a dense representation of the flow field, with high information content in each point of the numerical grid. Results from two test aquifers are presented. The LIC is proved to be qualitatively superior, carrying a larger amount of information regarding the flow structure. [Animation by Bruno Jobard and Gordon Erlebacher, FSU].

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