NHSE Software Catalog

POLKA Animation System

url

file://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/people/stasko/polka.tar.Z

abstract

POLKA is a general purpose animation system that is particularly
well-suited to building animations of programs, algorithms and
computations, especially parallel computations. POLKA supports color,
real-time, 2 & 1/2 dimensional, smooth animations. To see examples
(still frames) from Polka animations, click on visualization gallery. To
actually run a few example POLKA animations (requires X Windows),
click on animation gallery. The focus of the system is on a balance of
power and ease-of-use. POLKA provides its own high-level
abstractions to make the creation of animations easier and faster than
with many other systems. Programmers need not be graphics experts to
develop their own animations.

description

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/softviz/parviz/polka.html

contact

John Stasko / stasko@cc.gatech.edu

keywords

animation; execution trace visualization

environment

POLKA is implemented in C++ on top of UNIX and the X11 Window System, and it
requires the Motif widget set.