POLKA POLKA is a general purpose animation system that is particularly well-suited to building animations of programs, algorithms and computations, especially parallel computations. POLKA supports color, real-time, 2 & 1/2 dimensional, smooth animations. Polka also includes an interactive, front-end called Samba. Samba is an animation interpreter that reads one ascii command per line, then performs that animation directive.

Current Version:   ?? License Type:   Free

Home Site: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/softviz/parviz/polka.html Source Code Availability:   Yes Available Binary Packages: Debian Package:   No RedHat RPM Package:   No Other Packages:   No Targeted Platforms: POLKA is implemented in C++ on top of UNIX and the X11 Window System. Yes, POLKA works well on Linux. Software/Hardware Requirements: Versions of using Motif and Athena widgets are available.

Other Links: ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/people/stasko (FTP site, polka.tar.Z) Mailing Lists/USENET News Groups: None User Comments: June 1993 issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing has an article about POLKA. See A Screen Shot? (Not Yet)

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