Algorithm Visualization and Animation
mapping programs to pictures
Algorithm visualization and animation depends on
graphical representation of algorithm execution. Algorithm
visualization makes understanding algorithms easier. So far, it is primarily
used for educational purposes; our intention is to make it usefull for
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- Algorithm Visualization
- Exhibiting characteristic properties of algorithms by use of adequate graphical means
- Projection
- Execution of a program with simultaneous graphical presentation of its data
- Algorithm Visualization Systems
- Systems used for preparation of projections and for performing them
- Algorithm Animation
- Algorithm Visualization in which the created image change in time
- Our system: WinSanal
WinSANAL system works in Microsoft Windows 95/NT, it is implemented in C++ and intended to visualizes programs written in C++. the system exhibits features of a graphically controlled debugging program.
The aims of our works are:
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To create an algorithm animation system that would allow to prepare high quality projections in a short time,
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To interactively aid program debugging using graphical representation of data.
See sample animations made with the system.
Education is the primary field of application for algorithm visualization. What we want to do is to create a new tool usefull also for software engineers.
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- We cooperate with:
- Algorithm Animation Group at Centre d'Automatique de Lille
Other sites:
- Algorithm Animation at DEC SRC
- Software Visualization at the University of Exeter
- Software Visualization at the Open University
- Software Visualization at Georgia Tech
- PAVANE at Washington University
- GeoMAMOS at Northwestern University
- VOGUE at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo
- Program Visualization at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
- A Principled Taxonomy of Sofware Visualization paper in JVLC
- Visual Programming, bibliography
