Graphic and relational data base support for problem solving

  • Authors:
  • Dan Weller;Robin Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Research, San Jose, California;IBM Research, San Jose, California

  • Venue:
  • SIGGRAPH '76 Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
  • Year:
  • 1976

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Abstract

This paper describes a general purpose 'picture building system'. The main purpose of the system is to provide an environment wherein an application programmer can interactively create and modify applications. In addition to a graphics software package the picture building system provides high-level application building tools and a relational data base as integral parts of the system. An interpreter is provided to draw pictures from data stored in relations. A correlation handler is provided to allow a user to identify and manipulate displayed items. A relations editor is provided to interactively create, edit, and display relations. The picture building system works on a variety of graphic and nongraphic terminals.