State Animations

The default upshot display does not scale well to large numbers of processes. To remedy this, one can trade the static processes-versus-time display for a time-varying display in which two dimensions rather than one are used to place processes, with time-varying colors used to show state. This type of display has room for several thousand processes. It provides a primitive form of program animation, as the process states change over time. In upshot, this display does use time proportional to real time. The ratio of real time to display time can be dynamically changed.