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This project examined how three-dimensional graphics could be used to visualize computer programs, algorithms, and computations. We created a 3D library and toolkit called POLKA-3D that can be used to build animations of computations.

Pictured above is a 3d view of a quicksort algorithm. The blue dots to the right represent the values being sorted, and the multicolored planes to the left provide a history of the exchanges in the program.


Pertinent references include:

Stasko, John T. and Wehrli, Joseph F., "Three-Dimensional Computation Visualization", Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, Bergen, Norway, August 1993, pp. 100-107.

Wehrli, Joseph and Stasko, John, "Interactive Three-Dimensional Visual Debugging in Massively Parallel Computation (extended abstract)", Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/ONR Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging, San Diego, CA, May 1993, pp. 235-237.

Stasko, John T. and Wehrli, Joseph F., " Three-Dimensional Computation Visualization", Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Technical Report GIT-GVU-92-20, September 1992.

 


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