SRC Research Report 110a

Algorithm Animation Using 3D Interactive Graphics

Marc H. Brown and Marc A. Najork

This report describes a variety of 3D interactive graphics techniques for visualizing programs. The third dimension provides an extra degree of freedom for conveying information, much as color adds to black-and-white images, animation adds to static images, and sound adds to silent animations. The examples in this report illustrate three fundamental uses of 3D: for providing additional information about objects that are intrinsically two-dimensional, for uniting multiple views, and for capturing a history of execution. The application of dynamic three-dimensional graphics to program visualization is largely unexplored.

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Algorithm Animation Using 3D Interactive Graphics

Marc H. Brown and Marc A. Najork

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