Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Simulation software: an Operational Research Society survey of academic and industrial users
Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
Simulation Modeling and Analysis (McGraw-Hill Series in Industrial Engineering and Management)
Simulation Modeling and Analysis (McGraw-Hill Series in Industrial Engineering and Management)
X3D: Extensible 3D Graphics for Web Authors
X3D: Extensible 3D Graphics for Web Authors
TimeClock: flexible animation control in X3D
Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on 3D web technology
Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation
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Good animation capability is an important feature of simulation software. Academic simulation systems are either lacking this feature or have very limited animation capabilities. Therefore this paper describes the Generic Factory Animator (GFA), a new open source post-processing animator which can be used with any discrete simulation system. The GFA transforms simulation data into a three-dimensional representation thereof. Structural and behavioral information provided as Extensible Markup Language (XML) files from simulation runs are converted into the Extensible 3D (X3D) format. The requirements of the input files are described and the internal structure of the GFA is explained along with the possibility to customize the animation output. The results are represented by an example of usage. Since X3D is an open and standardized format the resulting animation can be easily distributed and viewed in an X3D browser without the need of a simulation software.