An embedded modeling language approach to interactive 3d and multimedia animation

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 291-308

  Elliott, Conal ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Domain specific languages; Embedded languages; Functional programming; Graphics; Haskell; Multimedia; Temporal modeling

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EMBEDDED MODELING LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES;

EID: 0032594249     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.798320     Document Type: Article

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