Taxonomy of algorithm animation languages

Authors:
Ville Karavirta;Ari Korhonen;Lauri Malmi
Affiliations:
Helsinki University of Technology;Helsinki University of Technology;Helsinki University of Technology
Venue:
SoftVis '06 Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Software visualization
Year:
2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a taxonomy of algorithm animation languages, and apply it to evaluate a set of current languages. The taxonomy can be used by algorithm visualization system designers as a tool to compare visualization system languages with each other as well as for designing and implementing new systems and language features. In addition, the taxonomy provides guidelines to the features that are needed for transferring animations from one system to another. This is an ongoing project that supports the work started by the ITiCSE visualization working group in 2005.