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POLKA Animation Designer's Package



This section is a copy of [1] , which is available at:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/softviz/parviz/polkastuff/polkadoc-lite.ps.
The POLKA document is copyrighted by John T. Stasko, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280, and is available for noncommercial use.


 

This package implements a structured graphics and animation design toolkit in C++. With it, you can create color, smooth, 2 1/2-dimensional animations on top of the X11 Window System. It is particularly good for creating algorithm animations. The package has three levels of abstraction. The first and highest level is the Animator. You will need to create one Animator for each program to be animated. The Animator primarily handles program event reception. The second level is the View, which is a window onto the program. Multiple animation views can be open on one program. An Animator will drive all the views with which it is associated. Finally, there's the animation constituent level and the three main classes of objects contained therein: AnimObject, Location, and Action. Below we describe these levels in more detail.
 


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Ha Hoai Phuong

2002-11-11