Ruby Swarms: Visualizing Rails & Git

Wow! Talk about the explosive effect of Git and GitHub... The Rails video belongs somewhere on GitHub's home page.

Hey, Ilya, here's an idea: Could you parse out tags and overlay them on the video? I could make a guess as to when the 1.2.6 --> 2.0 transition happened based on the activity, but it would be cool to see that information inline with the video.

Hmm, interesting idea. I would have to post-process the generated images to add the text.. easily down with a GUI tool, would require some mucking around on the command line.

If you like these, might I also suggest some other fascinating visualizations of the commit history of Python, Eclipse, Apache, and PostgreSQL: http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/

Link takes you to the homepage of the original author of code_swarm.

HD version here: http://vimeo.com/2979892?pg=embed&sec=2979892&hd=1

(Even still, it's very hard to see.)

Yep, if you want to see it in full 1280x720 glory, you can grab the AVI files directly:

Rails ~180mb: http://vimeo.com/download/video:87550087?e=1233100930&h=...

Dr Nic ~30mb: http://vimeo.com/download/video:87550019?e=1233100802&h=...