Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
1-31-1988
Degree Name
Master of Science in Computer Science - (M.S.)
Department
Computer and Information Science
First Advisor
Murray Turoff
Abstract
There is a need to provide graphics capabilities for the objective of "Group Graphics". This is the ability of a group of humans to work collaboratively on the same diagram. It is the intent of this project to provide some of the fundamental software tools to allow a group of individuals to deal with a "mosaic" form of graphics made up of many separate screens that can be panned and conceptually edited by each individual who is working on portions of the overall document.
Simple tools are provided for the creation of graphics screens as well as saveing and retrieving them as bit-mapped images. When retrieved in a "mosaic", these graphics screens can be panned, viewed and edited by different members of the same group.
This project provides the ability to spatially layout multiple grahpic screens in a single diagram. These screens may be contained in individual bit mapped files and generated by any appropriate graphic composition package. Also to allow an easy to use facility for panning the resulting mosaic graphic and special tools for line and brush oriented drawing and errasier to the large scale diagram.
Internally, the project uses compaction routines to allow for the easy communication or transfer of the results to others. Fundamental tools are provided to allow icon oriented text notes to be added to any location in the mosaic that are separately stored as standard ASCII text. Other routines were added to extend the "mosaic" concept to allow complete integration of multi-meida (e.g. text, graphics, digitized voice, etc.).
To provide the user with a simple tool for animation, another feature is added to repeatedly display the screens in the "mosaic"; This tool can be used for computer screen demos.
Recommended Citation
Youssef, Abdo Fathy, "Multiple-screen panning system" (1988). Theses. 3267.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/3267
