Three dimensional animation of Web access behavior using indirect mapping

Author

Osawa, Noritaka ; Asai, Kikuo ; Ohnishi, Hitoshi

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Multimedia Educ., Chiba, Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

502

Lastpage

507

Abstract

The paper proposes and discusses a 3D animation method for helping us to comprehend the behavior of Web accesses. The proposed method uses dynamic system modeling because human beings live in a dynamic world and they have been trained to comprehend the world since their birth. The method maps the Web access data to mass and forces in a dynamic system model, then simulates the model, and renders the results as graphical objects in the 3D space. An animation tool using the proposed method has been developed. It is implemented with the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) and the Java programming language, and it works on a Web browser. The features and functions of the tool are described, and some snapshots of animations of a Web server log are presented

Keywords

Internet; Java; computer animation; information retrieval; online front-ends; rendering (computer graphics); virtual reality languages; 3D animation method; 3D space; Java programming language; VRML; Virtual Reality Modeling Language; Web access behavior; Web access data; Web browser; Web server log; animation tool; dynamic system model; dynamic system modeling; dynamic world; graphical objects; indirect mapping; three dimensional animation; Animation; Computer graphics; Data visualization; Electrical capacitance tomography; Humans; Java; Modeling; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1093-9547

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0210-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.1999.781603

Filename

781603