Evaluating X3D for use in software visualization

The generation of three-dimensional models of urban environments using procedural modelling is presented as being a solution that allows financial and temporal gains, maintaining an acceptable visual fidelity level. Nevertheless, the modelling of anchor buildings (or monumental), identifying certain urban areas, needs a more careful modelling, due to the elevated level of detail necessary, using, generally, manual modelling. This paper proposes a data model to be used on an architecture for high level modelling of monumental buildings, through the introduction of additional knowledge from textual information. The firsts results shows that the data model is flexible enough to build distinct models of churches and other buildings. This data model also provides a high level threedimensional model that can be used by other procedural modelling solutions to create detailed monumental buildings. The results also demonstrate that it is possible to use simple text to create a rudimentary 3D model, showing the way to further investigation, allowing non-specialized users to increase effectiveness using a procedural modelling system.

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“…With the advent of X3D, this format shall be increasingly used, originating the migration to this format [12].…”

Section: A Three-dimensional Modellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data model for procedural modelling from textual descriptions

Rodrigues¹,

Coelho

Reis³

2010

IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation

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“…Actually an earlier version of GEF3D [von Pilgrim 2007] was implemented using Java3D, but this approach was canceled due to severe memory and other technical problems. Another approach is using VRML or its successor X3D for visualization, the latter was evaluated for use in software visualization in [Anslow et al 2006]. While these languages seem to provide an easy way of creating a visualization, full-featured editors are hard to implement in them.…”

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confidence: 99%

Gef3D

Pilgrim

Duske

2008

Proceedings of the 4th ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

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Three-dimensional software visualization is a commonly used and very helpful approach when two-dimensional representations of complex systems become too cluttered. But 3D visualizers usually are developed separately from existing development tools. Often they do not allow editing of the displayed models which may be desirable in many cases, as for example in model driven development (MDD), in which models are first class artifacts.With GEF3D we present a 3D framework which is based on the widely used two-dimensional graphical editing framework Eclipse GEF. It enhances this framework, enabling programmers to easily implement 3D editors. Furthermore existing 2D editors can be adapted to be used in 3D multi editors by projecting the 2D content on planes. In this article we explain the architecture and certain design patterns of GEF3D in order to give researchers and developers interested in 3D software visualization an overview of how to use GEF3D and of the features provided by the framework. We show how GEF3D is applied to embed an existing UML class editor into a 3D editor, and present a special use case: the visualization of traces in the area of MDD.

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“…We want to create visualizations of object-oriented programs over the web cheap, portable, easy, and usable for end-user software developers. We have a corpus of Java software 1 that contains 94 open-source Java applications, 22 applications with multiple versions, with 233 versions total. The corpus is used for conducting empirical studies to help understand how software engineers create code and the relationship between the code structure and quality attributes such as modifiability, reusability, maintainability, and testability.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Our previous work in developing a web-based software visualization architecture [5] has explored creating visualizations with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) [3] and Extensible 3D Graphics (X3D) [1]. We are building a web software visualization application that makes uses of these technologies, and allows end-users to upload Java files and then create different…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards end-user web software visualization

Anslow

Noble

Marshall

et al. 2008

2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

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Software visualization has always been expensive, special purpose, and hard to program. Most of the existing software visualization tools require too much time for enduser developers to learn and make effective use of. We are currently building a web software visualization application that allows end-user to create, view, save, and share visualizations. In this abstract we introduce our software corpus visualization project and summarize our results thus far.

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Evaluating X3D for use in software visualization

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Data model for procedural modelling from textual descriptions

Data model for procedural modelling from textual descriptions

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