Visualizing object oriented software in three dimensions
Colin Ware, David Hui, Glenn Franck · 1993
There is increasing evidence that it is possible to perceive and understand increasingly complex information systems if they are displayed as graphical objects in a three dimensional space. Object-oriented software provides an interesting test case- there is a natural mapping from software objects to visual objects. In this paper we explore two areas. 1) Information perception: we are running controlled experiments to determine empirically if our initial premise is valid; how much more (or less) can be understood in 3D than in 2D? 2) Layout: our strategy is to combine partially automatic layout with manual layout. This paper presents a brief overview of the project, the software architecture and some preliminary empirical results.