A Generic System for Interactive Real--Time Animation Dücker, M. Lehrenfeld, Georg Müller, Wolfgang Tahedl, C. Real time systems Animation Debugging Automation Computer languages Timing Environmental management Programming environments Visualization Multimedia systems The authors present a new approach to an interactive design and analysis environment for visual languages. The main components, i.e., editor animator and interpreter are introduced. Their interactions are being investigated emphasizing the interpreter-animator interaction and defining an interface supporting different levels of automation. The interpreter performs the executions on a logical level and triggers the animator. The interactive animation provides a very high degree of liveness since it is based on the tight integration of the animator and editor. The proposed architecture permits the distributed implementation of a system for real-time animation. Their concepts are validated by the implementation of a debugging environment for the complete visual programming language Pictorial Janus. 1997 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject doc-type:conferenceObject text http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794 https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/record/39502 Dücker M, Lehrenfeld G, Müller W, Tahedl C. A Generic System for Interactive Real--Time Animation. In: <i> Proceedings International Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems</i>. ; 1997. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ECBS.1997.581876">10.1109/ECBS.1997.581876</a> eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1109/ECBS.1997.581876 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/0-8186-7889-5 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess