Few days ago, I learned about a cool visualization program called Codeswarm which, surprisingly, is made by a guy that lives in Davis California like me. Codeswarm can be fed with the logs from a source code repository and produces an animated history of that source code. Soon enough, my weekend project became the creation a video that would condense the 11+ years of the Wiresahrk source code in 3 minutes. The result can be seen here: http://www.vimeo.com/9329501.
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Comment by Stephen Fisher on 2010-02-09 17:02:04 +0000 đź”—
That has to be the most awesome geek thing I’ve seen lately ;).
Comment by Mike on 2010-02-10 04:34:28 +0000 đź”—
WOW! very nice
Comment by Chris Maynard on 2010-02-14 20:08:37 +0000 đź”—
Very impressive! So impressive that I had to go create one of my own. Thanks for the inspiration.
Comment by Elliott Aldrich on 2010-02-15 10:14:11 +0000 đź”—
That is fantastic!
Loris – Is the music created and synced by Codeswarm or did you add that yourself later? There are some moments where the music really enhances the visuals well.
Comment by Loris Degioanni on 2010-02-15 10:35:58 +0000 đź”—
Codeswarm creates the animation only. I post-produced the result to add the text and the music; took a couple of attempts to synchronize everything.
A curiosity: the music I picked (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Dalfin) is a traditional piece from the region in Italy where I grew up, and the instrument you are hearing is a hurdy gurdy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdy-gurdy).
Comment by Brock on 2010-02-27 12:53:32 +0000 đź”—
Very cool – first instance of Codeswarm I’ve seen (or heard of, for that matter)… good choice of music and great job editing… just the right pace, good synch 🙂
Comment by Chris on 2010-03-10 11:11:42 +0000 đź”—
Loris, would you tell us the title of the piece from Lou Dalfin?
Comment by Christian on 2010-03-11 01:18:11 +0000 đź”—
The music sounds a bit like the fast part in Deep Purples “child in time”.
Comment by AKE on 2010-03-17 10:29:39 +0000 đź”—
Very nicely done — this really hits the spot aesthetically and presumably emotionally for the Wireshark team!
Comment by Luke on 2010-03-25 01:11:16 +0000 đź”—
You see it coming together nicely!
Comment by Jay on 2010-04-07 05:08:35 +0000 đź”—
That was amazing it sounds like Dropkick Murphy’s to watch Irish Gangster movies by…