Algorithm animation using 3D interactive graphics
Marc H. Brown, Marc Najork · 1993
This paper describes a variety of 3D interactive graphics techniques for visualizing programs.The third dimension provides an extra degree of freedom for conveying information, much as color adds to black-and-white images, animation adds to static images, and sound adds to silent animations.The examples in this paper illustrate three fundamental uses of 3D: for providing additional information about objects that are intrinsically two-dimensional, for uniting multiple views, and for capturing a history of execution.The application of dynamic three-dimensional graphics to program visualization is largely unexplored.