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Transforming Scene Graphs Using Triple Graph Grammars – A Practice Report

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Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance (AGTIVE 2007)

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This paper shows the usage of Triple Graph Grammars for a project in the domain of computer graphics. This project aims to specify a conversion tool for two different computer graphic file formats: FBX and OSG. Our approach first builds a parse tree of the source file, then converts this tree into a parse tree of the target format using TGGs and then dumps the target file. Our approach relies on Java based technologies like JavaCC, the Fujaba Toolsuite and the MoTE TGG engine. The paper will show that those tools integrate very well. We will present our TGG-based approach for file conversion and demonstrate this with the FBX2OSG case study.

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  1. Technische Informatik, University of Kassel, Germany

    Nina Aschenbrenner

  2. Software Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Wilhelmshöher Allee 73, 34121, Kassel, Germany

    Leif Geiger

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  1. Fachgebiet Echtzeitsysteme, Technische Universität Darmstadt, D-64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Andy Schürr

  2. Department of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen, Chair of Computer Science III, Aachen, Germany

    Manfred Nagl

  3. Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

    Albert Zündorf

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Aschenbrenner, N., Geiger, L. (2008). Transforming Scene Graphs Using Triple Graph Grammars – A Practice Report. In: Schürr, A., Nagl, M., Zündorf, A. (eds) Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance. AGTIVE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5088. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89020-1_3

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