Title :
Semantics design of a visual language for constructing and animating geometric objects
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Indiana Univ., Indianapolis, IN, USA
Abstract :
Compared to textual languages, visual languages often hold a different set of characteristics and constraints in syntax and semantics. This paper discusses some of the constraints and their implications on the semantics specification of visual language primitives. The discussion is presented in a context of designing a visual language for constructing and animating geometric objects
Keywords :
computational geometry; programming language semantics; visual languages; geometric objects; semantics; visual language primitives; visual languages; Animation; Educational institutions; Electrical capacitance tomography; Geometry; History; Keyboards; Mice; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0216-4
DOI :
10.1109/VL.1999.795890