Java3D Tutorial Jenny Orr, Willamette University

Behaviors

• Provides the means for animating objects, processing keyboard and mouse inputs, reacting to movement, and using pick events.
• Examples:
  • Rotations
  • Mouse Behaviors: Rotation, Translation
  • Key Navigation
  • Rubic's Cube
• Behaviors are active only if the view volume intersects the behavior's scheduling region.
• Behavior leaf nodes contain two methods:
  • initialization - specifies wake-up conditions
  • processStimulus