Web-Based Tool for Programming Interactive 3D Animations in Terms of State-Transition Diagrams

Kwong, Dandy Ling; Niibori, Michitoshi; Okamoto, Satoru; Kamada, Masaru; Yonekura, Tatsuhiro

doi:10.1109/nbis.2013.75

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“…This is possible through the usage of states, where each character can only be at one state at any given time in a state-transition diagram. Contrasting this to the rule-based event-driven programming environment such as Kodu, this allows user to learn easily the fundamental concept of serial control flow which forms the building block of programming language [10].…”

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Islay3D—A Programming Environment for Authoring Interactive 3D Animations in Terms of State-Transition Diagram

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Okamoto³

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An educational programming language is a programming language that is designed primarily as a learning instrument and not so much as a tool for writing programs for production. Three-dimensional (3D) interactive animations provide an effective means to engage the attention of the audience to learn programming language. Traditionally, creating 3D games had been difficult as it requires specialized programming skills. However, it had been proven that the state-transition diagram, which is the most fundamental principle for automata, is intuitively so comprehensive that even children can create programs for interactive animations and video games in the twodimensional world. Islay3D is a programming environment for authoring interactive 3D animations based on this concept. In this paper, the Islay3D animation language is introduced, where a character is modeled as an object, and its behavior is defined in term of a set of state-transition diagrams. The interpretation of the state-transition diagrams to JavaScript is also presented. Finally, the web-based programming environment is introduced. With the web-based platform, the public will be able express their creativity in creating interactive 3D animations and video games easily from within their browser.

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