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A prototypical 3D graphical visualizer for object-oriented systems

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This paper describes a framework for visualizing object-oriented systems within a 3D interactive environment. The 3D visualizer represents the structure of a program as Cylinder Net that simultaneously specifies two relationships between objects within 3D virtual space. Additionally, it represents additional relationships on demand when objects are moved into local focus. The 3D visualizer is implemented using a 3D graphics toolkit, TOAST, that implements 3D widgets and 3D graphics to ease the programming task for 3D visualization.

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  1. Hua Qingyi

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    Hua Qingyi, Heinz-Dieter Böcker & Dong Cheng

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Hua Qingyi received his B.S. in computer science and his M.S. in artificial intelligence from Northwest University, Xi’an, P.R. China. He is an Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science at Northwest University. He worked as a visiting scientist at the Department of Computer Science of Technical University of Darmstadt, and at the German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD), Darmstadt, F.R. Germany from 1991 to 1994, respectively. His current research interests include interactive computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and software visualization.

Heinz-Dieter Böcker received a Diploma of Psychology from University of Hamburg and Dr. rer. nat. from Technical University of Stuttgart, F.R. Germany. He is a division manager of the Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute of the German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD), Darmstadt, F.R. Germany. His current research interests include cognitive psychology, multimedia information retrieval, object-oriented programming, user interfaces, and visual programming.

Dong Cheng received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tongji University, Shanghai, P.R. China. He is a student research assistant at the German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD), Darmstadt, F.R. Germany. His current research interests include graphical user interfaces, multimedia programming, and software visualization.

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Hua, Q., Böcker, HD. & Dong, C. A prototypical 3D graphical visualizer for object-oriented systems. J. of Comput. Sci. & Technol. 11, 489–496 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02947216

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