Lecture 23

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 8.5
Streak Lines as Tangent Curves of a Derived Vector Field. Tino Weinkauf, Holger Theisel. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 16(6): 1225-1234 (2010).

Flow Visualization. Stephen Kline (National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films). 35 min running time.
Check out the Film Notes as well.
Imaged Based Streamline Generation and Rendering. Liya Li and Han-Wei Shen. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol 13, No. 3, pages 630-640, 2007.
Image-guided streamline placement. G. Turk and D. Banks. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 453-460, 1996.
See also, Creating evenly-spaced streamlines of arbitrary density. B. Jobard and W. Lefer. In Visualization in Scientific Computing, pages 43-56, 1997.