Animal Home Page

Attached to this blog is the latest version of the AnimalScript specification. The specification has been drastically updated and now includes the new additions to the AnimalScript, such as support for grids (e.g., tables or matrices) and graphs.

Download GFGAA (Version 0.98, April 30, 2008), an optional generator for graph algorithm animations. This allows the user to visually generate graph structures. It is also able to animate a set of graph algorithms on the given graph(s) in AnimalScript. You can start the tool using
java -jar gfgaa_0p98-30-04-08.jar

Animalipse, a plugin for editing AnimalScript content, is now available for download!

To install the plugin into Eclipse, please follow these steps:

1. Open the Help menu
2. Select "Software Update"
3. Select "Find and Install.."
4. Select "Search for new features to install"
5. Create a new remote site with an arbitrary name (e.g., "Animalipse") and the following address: http://www.algoanim.info/Animal/download/Animalipse
6. Confirm the address by pressing OK

Welcome to the Animal Animation Repository!

This repository provides a quick overview of the currently hosted algorithm and data structure animations available for the Animal algorithm animation system.

Please note that there are far more animations actually available than can be shown here - simply due to the fact that each run of one of the built-in generators will create a new (and possibly unique) animation. The entries in this repository are mainly meant to illustrate the uses possible for Animal to "whet your appetite".

Enjoy!

Feedback is always welcome.

Here you can find links to the following set of extension packages:

• AnimalScript-API
• Image export
• Sorting Generator(note: now also embedded in Animal in File -> Generate...)
• Generator for Vigenère En-/Decryption (note: now also embedded in Animal in File -> Generate...)
• GFGAA, the Generator for Graph Algorithm Animations

With this small extension, you can export any part of a given Animal animation as a (set of) image(s)! To do so, follow these simple steps:

1. Download the archive imageExport.zip attached to this blog entry to the path where you installed Animal.
2. Unzip the file. This should generate a new file in the subdirectory animal/exchange/ImageSequenceExporter.class
3. Download the archive JimiProClasses.zip attached to this blog entry.
4. Copy the (uncompressed) ZIP file into your CLASSPATH.

Download SortAlgorithmGUI.jar, an optional extension for generating sorting algorithm animations on demand. The tool can be started by
java -jar SortAlgorithmGUI.jar.

Note: the extension is now outdated; all contents have been incorporated directly into Animal.

Download Searching.jar, an optional generator for searching and string searching algorithms. This generator can currently handle the following algorithms:

• Brute-force Search
• Binary Search
• Interpolated Search
• Brute-Force Search in Strings
• Knuth, Morris, and Pratt Search (KMP) in Strings
• Boyer-Moore Search in Strings.

Please note that this generator is currently only available in German!

The following documentation is currently available:

1. Animal Animations (all including screenshots, classification and description)
2. Animal User Guide (PDF, 195 461 Byte) - this documentation describes
   1. software / hardware requirements,
   2. starting Animal,
   3. playing Animal animations
   4. and visual generation of Animal animations.