Uma Abordagem 3D para a Visualização de Padrões de Projeto
Abstract
In this work, a 3D visualization approach to the visualization of design patterns existing in a given framework is presented. In this approach, a class is visualized as volume composed of three semi-axes that represents the coordinate system. One concrete class is visualized as a sphere and an abstract class is visualized as a pyramid. Each axis represents a patiern category, that is, behavioral, creational and structural. Each pattern is represented by a distinctive polyhedral shape defined by specific mapping components. Through this representation, it is possible to simultaneously visualize the classes that compose the application and the way they are related by those design patterns that define the framework essential structure, without the necd of several two dimensional representations. The approach was implemented as an extension of the MetaExplorer tool, using a 3D extension of the visualization sub-framework of the Luthier framework, specially developed for the construction of software visualization tools.
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