[Savannah-hackers] submission of Zoomable Visual Transformation Machine - savannah.nongnu.org

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Emmanuel Pietriga <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: lgpl
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Package: Zoomable Visual Transformation Machine
System name: zvtm
Type: non-GNU

Description:
I would like to open a new project on the nongnu side of Savannah. This project 
will be the continuation of the already existing XVTM (Xerox Visual 
Transformation Machine), which is already distributed by Xerox under an LGPL 
license.

I designed and implemented this library while working for Xerox and MIT/W3C. I 
will leave Xerox at the end of September 2002, and since I will continue to 
develop XVTM (I am going back to MIT where I will resume working for W3C), I 
need to be able to easily share the new code and also to allow other people to 
contribute code (the library is already used by 3rd parties ; for instance a 
university in Sweden). 

I have already discussed this with my Xerox manager, and he agrees with me that 
this is the best way to proceed. So the idea is to launch a new project based 
on the XVTM. As I said, XVTM is already distributed by Xerox under LGPL. The 
new project hosted by Savannah would also be under LGPL license.

Now, about the library\'s purpose:

It already exists and you can download the latest distribution at 
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/competencies/contextual-computing/vtm/

The VTM (Visual Transformation Machine) is a Zoomable User Interface toolkit 
implemented in Java, designed to ease the task of creating complex visual 
editors in which large amounts of objects have to be displayed, or which 
contain complex geometrical shapes that need to be animated. It offers features 
such as continuous zooming (2.5D environment), constrained interaction and 
perceptual continuity in object animations and camera movements, which should 
make the end-user\'s overall experience more pleasing.

On the programming side, the VTM features a graphical object model that makes 
the task of creating, modifying and animating graphical entities easier, allows 
the definition of custom shapes, all through a simple API. The VTM also 
features smooth zooming capabilities (2.5D/zoomable user interface), multiple 
independent layers inside a single viewport, multi-threaded views, and support 
for exporting SVG documents. 

It has been used for instance to develop IsaViz at W3C 
(http://www.w3.org/2001/11/IsaViz/), a visual browser/editor for RDF that 
represents models as zoomable 2D graphs.



Other Software Required:
It is written in Java and runs perfectly on free Java VMs.

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