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<CHAPTER id="chapter.introduction"><TITLE>Introduction</TITLE>
  <PARA><TITLE>Overview</TITLE>
    The Inspector is designed to obliterate the barrier between datastructures and their
    graphical representation, in particular, to make the user feel
    operating directly with the values without abstractions involved. This is achieved
    by providing the following features:
  </PARA>
  <P>
    <LIST>
      <ITEM>Fast drawing services</ITEM>
      <ITEM>Human readable and predictable data layout</ITEM>
      <ITEM>Interactive and automatic type-directed tree transformations</ITEM>
      <ITEM>Multiple views of the same data</ITEM>
      <ITEM>Widely configurable</ITEM>
    </LIST>
  </P>
</CHAPTER>
