Kaleidoscape: A 3D Environment for Querying ODMG Compliant Databases
Norman Murray, Carole Goble, Norman W. Paton · 1998
Kaleidoscape is a three dimensional (3D) implementation of a data-flow oriented visual query language, which has been implemented in 3D to examine the advantages and disadvantages of such an interface paradigm over current WIMP GUIs. This paper describes a version of Kaleidoscape that allows the user to construct queries from within a 3D environment. These queries are then translated into the ODMG standard textual query language OQL for evaluation, the results of which can be viewed and browsed from within the Kaleidoscape environment.