Abstract

Alice is a rapid prototyping system used to create three dimensional graphics simulations like those seen in virtual reality applications. Alice uses an interpreted language called Python to implement the semantics of user actions. This interactive development environment allows users to explore many more design options than is possible in a compiled language environment. KEYWORDS virtual reality, rapid prototyping, interpreted languages CURRENT NEED FOR RAPID PROTOTYPING The current state of 3D user interface development is reminiscent of the early days of 2D GUI development. Then, as now, programmers see a huge new design space with opportunities for important strides in user interface development. Progress remains slow, unfortunately, because the development tools are still primitive and because most systems are still hampered by the edit-test-compile cycle imposed by C and C++. To help alleviate this problem, we have created a programming environment called Alice which encourag...

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