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A complex example for using KLighD technology, the Ptolemy Visualization project is about generating transient views of Ptolemy II models that are easy to browse through. Ptolemy II is an open source program developed at UC Berkeley for experimenting with actor-oriented modelling. Actors are graphical representations of components with a certain functionality that generate outputs as a function of the inputs they receive. To use the output of one actor as the input of another, actors are connected by links. A typical Ptolemy model might for instance look like this:

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