Animation of Object-Oriented Program Execution

Year: 2011 Authors: Peter Boothe; Sandro Badame

Core claim

A Java program can be treated as a work of art by animating its changing call stack and object-reference graph with layouts that separate data-structure elegance from software-engineering elegance.

Topics

program execution animation, graph layout, software aesthetics, dynamic visualization

Domains

graph drawing, 3-dimensional layout, breadth-first search, animation, visual aesthetics, information design, digital art

Methods

debugger-based tracing, graph abstraction, key-frame animation, linear interpolation

Media

Java programs, call stack graphs, screen animations, binary tree visuals

Source status

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