Animal Home Page

On this page, we provide some information on how to use Animal. Due to the way this web page is organized, the individual components may be somewhat hard to locate - therefore, they are gathered on this page.

On this page, you will always find a link to the download page for the most recent version of Animal.

Currently, the most recent version is Animal-2.3.21. Please follow the link to download this version.

Version 2.3.21 of Animal is now online and can be accessed at this blog entry or on the Downloads page.

Make sure you download the JAR, and do not try to run it directly (which will not work).

Please note: Animal requires Java 6 or later to work properly. Please make sure you have a current version of Java before installing the program!

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

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

AlgoAnim-API

The Java API for generating (not only) AnimalScript is now available! You can download the following elements attached to this posting:

• Example for how to use the API
• ZIP-Archive containing the JavaDoc for Animal including the AnimalScript API

Please note that the AlgoAnim API is bundled with Animal; therefore, you do not need to download it separately. Just download the latest version of Animal!

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.