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JOTSA is a animation package under development by Steven Robbins at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

JOTSA stands for Java On Time Synchronous Animation.

JOTSA development is supported by two NSF grants.

There are several papers and technical reports about JOTSA and about applications which use JOTSA.

• "The JOTSA Animation Environment," Thirty-First Hawaii Intl. Conf. on System Sciences, Jan. 1998, pp. 655-664. (postscript, 4Mb)
• A Jotsa Example, CS 96-13 (postscript, 156Kb)
• Jotsa Collections, CS 97-5(postscript, 2.3 Mb)

Here are some example animations built on JOTSA version 0.924:

• A simple applet which moves an oval along a line.
• An applet illustrating many JOTSA features.
• An example illustrating splits and merges.
• An example applied to the analysis of a nonperiodic system.

The following are available for downloading. All are gzipped tar files (Unix).

• Complete JOTSA version 0.924 with source code. (150Kb)
• A simple applet which moves an oval along a line. (2KB)
• An applet illustrating many JOTSA features. (22Kb)
• An example illustrating splits and merges. (10Kb)