As we research individual visualizations, we discover links to toolkits and software suites whose aim is to make AV creation easier. A few are more like environments than development toolkits. There may also be a few toolkits here which ease AV development even if that is not the package's true or sole aim.

Algorithm Visualization or Animation Toolkits

Java-based:

• Animal: A system for building animations

• JAWAA: A system for building animations

• JSAVE

• Gawain: 1996

• JHAVE and GAIGS

• Trakla2 and Matrix Pro: Interactive exercises

Pre-Java:

• BALSA: (and Balsa II) The original Algorithm Animation Toolkit, Marc Brown, Brown University, 1984

• XTango C++, John Stasko, Georgia Tech, 1991

• POLKA (and its front-end, Samba), John Stasko, Georgia Tech, 1993

• Swan: Annotate C/C++ programs with calls to a graphical library for visualization, Jun Yang, Cliff Shaffer, Virginia Tech, 1996

• Mocha: Brown University
• Zeus

Content Development Projects

• Exploratories: Computer Graphics Visualizations

Toolkits, related but not specfically for Algorithm Visualization

• OpenJGraph: Open source java library for drawing graphs and trees

• Prefuse: An information visualization toolkit with graph layout

• Processing: A package for rapidly creating signals processing artwork

• JavaDataStructuresLibrary (JDSL): A Java library for data structures

• JGraphEd: Draw and edit graphs, and can run some algorithms on them

• JFLAP: An extensive system for experimenting with formal languages systems including finite automata and Turing machines.

• DynaLab: Step through program code to watch execution. 1996.