On the use of metaballs to visually map source code structures and analysis results onto 3D space

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 299-308

  Rilling, Juergen ^a   Mudur, S P ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D modeling; metaballs; program slicing; Software visualization; visual mapping

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; REVERSE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

3-D MODELING; METABALLS; PROGRAM SLICING; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; VISUAL MAPPING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0142098503     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2002.1173087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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