A library for visualizing combinatorial structures

Authors:
Marc A. Najork;Marc H. Brown
Affiliations:
DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, CA;DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
Venue:
VIS '94 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '94
Year:
1994

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Abstract

This paper describes ANIM3D, a 3D animation library targeted at visualizing combinatorial structures. In particular, we are interested in algorithm animation. Constructing a new view for an algorithm typically takes dozens of design iterations, and can be very time-consuming. Our library eases the programmer's burden by providing high-level constructs for performing animations, and by offering an interpretive environment that eliminates the need for recompilations. This paper also illustrates ANIM3D's expressiveness by developing a 3D animation of Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm in just 70 lines of code.