Hi there,

there were none to speak of news in the past year of what I do except a7titude & The Lotter Effect but that was mainly caused by several projects I participate on, including Stonewall Penitentiary and my studies.

One project has been finished in its version yesterday, it's called "SynView".

SynView is a visualization application especially designed for displaying syntax trees as they are used and evaluated in the fields of (computational) linguistics and theoretical computer science (e.g. context free grammars used in compiler/software engineering).

SynView is done with the latest A7 version. The application parses LaTeX trees and transforms them into an object orientated datastructure. The visualized tree elements are sprites which are generated during runtime through rendering strings on bitmaps. Though, the sprites are static - rendering all elements dynamically causes a great fps drop. The program runs even with very large trees well on low-spec machines.

The user can zoom and pan the view, switch trees and can click on categories to focus subtrees.

SynView has been developed for a project named "Komparse" which means "comfortable parser" which can be used to parse and tag sentences to finally visualize them with SynView. The project has been supported by the chair of computational linguistics at my university.

Since this is my first "serious" application and no game with Gamestudio, I am little bit afraid how it will be evaluated by my docent and the public (you, especially).

[UPDATE - 16th August '09]
SynView is now publicially available as executable and source. I also did a small promo video in HD!!!

Video: SynView on YouTube
Installer & Source: SynView product page on my portfolio

C&C are welcome!

Best regards,
Christian