Visualizing object oriented software in three dimensions

  • Authors:
  • Colin Ware;David Hui;Glenn Franck

  • Affiliations:
  • University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB.;University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB.;University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB.

  • Venue:
  • CASCON '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research: software engineering - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

There is increasing evidence that it is possible to perceive and understand increasingly complex information systems if they are displayed as graphical objects in a three dimensional space. Object-oriented software provides an interesting test case - there is a natural mapping from software objects to visual objects. In this paper we explore two areas. 1) Information perception: we are running controlled experiments to determine empirically if our initial premise is valid; how much more (or less) can be understood in 3D than in 2D? 2) Layout: our strategy is to combine partially automatic layout with manual layout. This paper presents a brief overview of the project, the software architecture and some preliminary empirical results.