The 1993 SRC Algorithm Animation Festival

This report describes the 1993 SRC Algorithm Animation Festival. The festival continues an experiment in developing algorithm animations by non-experts, started the previous year, and described in SRC Research Report #98. This year nineteen researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Systems Research Center worked for two weeks on animating algorithms. Most of the participants had little (if any) experience writing programs that involved graphics. This report explains why we organized the festival, and describes the logistics of the festival and the advances in our algorithm animation system. This report presents the complete code for a simple, but non-trivial, animation of first-fit binpacking. Finally, this report contains snapshots from the animations produced during the festival.