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Visualizing Object Oriented Software In Three Dimensions, Colin Ware, David Hui, Glenn Franck
Visualizing Object Oriented Software In Three Dimensions, Colin Ware, David Hui, Glenn Franck
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There is increasing evidence that it is possible to perceive and understand increasingly comple x information systems if they are displayed a s graphical objects in a three dimensional space . Object-oriented software provides an interestin g test case - there is a natural mapping fro m software objects to visual objects . In this paper we explore two areas. 1) Information perception : we are running controlled experiments to determine empirically if our initial premise is valid; how much more (or less) can be understoo d in 3D than in 2D? 2) Layout: our strategy is to combine partially …