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.

The following documentation is currently available:

1. Quick Start Guide to Installing and Using Animal
2. Animal Animations (all including screenshots, classification and description)
3. Animal User Guide (PDF, 195 461 Byte) - this documentation describes
   1. software / hardware requirements,

A Java Runtime Environment or Java Development Kit must already be installed. Java must have version 1.5/5.0 or newer. If you do not have an installation of Java, visit http://java.sun.com to download a version. We recommend using JDK 6.

To run Animal, please input the following command and press RETURN: java -jar Animal-x.y.z.jar. Note: you have to replace the x.y.z by your version number, e.g. "2.3.14". On many platforms, double clicking on the JAR file will also work.

The list of Animal-related publications is hosted at my university page; please see the list of Animal-related publications hosted at that page. New publications (from 2008 or newer) will also be linked here on the web site.

Several users have mentioned that they cannot start the Animal version they have just downloaded - Java complains about it having a "bad class version". How can this problem be resolved?

After presenting Animal at the ACM ITiCSE 2007 conference, the current version of Animal is 2.3.7.
Within the course of preparing for the conference, a large set of new content generators was implemented, bringing their total number now to close to 100.

Animal will be presented at the ACM ITiCSE 2007 conference. This means that many changes and updates will happen before the conference, with the corresponding number of intermediate versions.