TITLE:
Translator of Islay 3D Animations into Flash Platform
AUTHORS:
Michitoshi Niibori, Makoto Rokujo, Shusuke Okamoto, Masaru Kamada, Tatsuhiro Yonekura
KEYWORDS:
Interactive Animations, State Transition Diagrams, Flash
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.9 No.11,
November
9,
2016
ABSTRACT: The three-dimensional (3D) interactive
animations and video games are so attractive that successful educational
programming environments like Alice and Kodu Game Lab deal with 3D characters.
Islay 3D is another educational programming environment of which feature is an
intuitively comprehensive user interface in terms of state transition diagrams.
Unfortunately its animation definition was too memory-hungry when played by the
built-in interpreter. In this paper, we present a translator of the animation
definitions of Islay 3D into ActionScript3 (AS3). Compiling the AS3 codes by
way of Papervision3D, we obtain the 3D Flash animation file playable on the
Flash platform. It will be shown that the memory and CPU usages will be much
saved, quartered and halved, respectively, by virtue of the translator.