GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING INDEPENDENT OF INTERACTION TECHNIQUES AND STYLES.

Abstract

The Information Display Systems project is seeking, among other goals, to apply the principles of top-down design and functional abstraction to the design of interactive systems, particularly those involving interactive computer graphics. An important part of this effort is to develop a methodology and a programming environment to facilitate the functional separation of program modules handlng a set of application semantics from program modules handling user interaction. The authors have developed a model for such an environment, and implemented a prototype version with a number of components.