Visualization of Areas of Interest in Component-Based System Architectures

Abstract

Abstract

Visualization of areas of interest in software architecture diagrams

“…To distinguish the two, we call the skeleton proposed by [Byelas and Telea 2006] an inner skeleton (since it is located at the center of the elements' bounding box), and the skeleton we propose here an outer skeleton (since it is located at the periphery of the elements' bounding box). We first briefly sketch the inner skeleton method (see also Fig.…”

“…In Section ?4, we shall compare, on real-world UML diagrams, the quality of the AOIs drawn using the skeleton proposed here and the skeleton proposed by the original AOI drawing method [Byelas and Telea 2006] respectively. To distinguish the two, we call the skeleton proposed by [Byelas and Telea 2006] an inner skeleton (since it is located at the center of the elements' bounding box), and the skeleton we propose here an outer skeleton (since it is located at the periphery of the elements' bounding box).…”

“…Finally, distance fields and isosurfaces are computationally expensive. Recently, a method based on texture splatting has been proposed that efficiently draws smooth AOIs of controlled shape with minimal user intervention [Byelas and Telea 2006], using a technique called texture splatting. However, this method is limited in handling complex, overlapping AOIs on large diagrams.…”

“…We build on the texture splatting idea of [Byelas and Telea 2006], keeping its main features (high speed and minimal user input). Additionally, we add new techniques to solve the problems of the original method, i.e.…”

“…Hence, T = 0 yields fully transparent pixels and T = 1 fully opaque pixels. The inner skeleton method [Byelas and Telea 2006] rendered the AOI by drawing the texture T centered at every skeleton point p i j , scaled by the radius r i j , and colored by a user specified AOI color. (drawn with sharp, straight lines).…”