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.
That has to be the most awesome geek thing I’ve seen lately ;).
WOW! very nice
Very impressive! So impressive that I had to go create one of my own. Thanks for the inspiration.
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.
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).
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 🙂
Loris, would you tell us the title of the piece from Lou Dalfin?
The music sounds a bit like the fast part in Deep Purples “child in time”.
Very nicely done — this really hits the spot aesthetically and presumably emotionally for the Wireshark team!
You see it coming together nicely!
That was amazing it sounds like Dropkick Murphy’s to watch Irish Gangster movies by…