Visualizing object-oriented software in virtual reality

The paper describes a system, Imsovision, for visualizing object-oriented software in a virtual reality Environment. A visualization language (COOL) is defined that maps C++ source code to a visual representation. Our aim is to develop a language with few metaphors and constructs, but with the ability to represent a variety of elements with no ambiguity or loss of meaning. In addition, the visualization has to maximally use the potential of the used media. The design of the OO software system and its attributes are represented in the visualization. Class information, relationships between classes, and metric information is displaced. VRML is used for the visualization and it is rendered in the CAVE environment