Interactive animation for visualisation of mapping of parallel programs into parallel processors

Abstract

Techniques of cartoon animation, when applied to the interface, provide the user with greater visual cues, and convey a feeling of substance to the objects being manipulated. The paper describes the effects used to animate many of the interactions in a structured graphical editor. The editor is used as a tool in a visual parallel programming environment and provides a new large application to test the effectiveness of the concept of animated direct manipulation. Also described are the implementation issues in order to provide animated graphical feedback for direct manipulation.