Filmification of methods: Convex Hull algorithms
Yutaka Watanobe, Rentaro Yoshioka, Shuichiro Tsukumoto, Nikolay Mirenkov · 2009
Filmification of methods is a promising concept to find new formats for program and data/knowledge representation. It is also to create a basis for specifying and developing a new generation of programming environments, as well as for introducing new types of educational materials. Within this approach various algorithms are analyzed and represented as cyberFilms where special visual constructs, super-symbols and background images are introduced for defining and explaining meaning of the cyberFilm frames. In this paper, the filmification of methods is applied to Convex Hull algorithms. As a result, several ways to enhance the approach has been obtained. They are based on new types of flashing (highlighting) nodes, to represent different limitations on specifying activity on spatial structures, and special background images and formulas to support the explanation of algorithm dynamics.