Code_swarm: An experiment in organic software visualization

This shows the dedication to projects and what it takes to make a language. Guido was pretty much alone for 5+ years early on in Python with Jack of MacPython downstream until at least '95 '96. Guido put in 5+ years not even knowing where Python would go just that it needed to be.

https://vimeo.com/1093745

Interesting. I wonder with github today projects gain contributors significantly earlier, since doing a PR on github is soo much easier than contributing to a project in the days before github.

Another interesting visualizer is gource[0] - here's an example video[1].

[0]: https://code.google.com/p/gource/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_02QGsHzEQ

I highly recommend gource. Since it's at least somewhat maintained (last commit was 9 months ago) where codeswarm hasn't been touched in 6 years...

This is from the UCDavis vidi lab [1]. It is a group of software engineers and researchers who work on scientific visualizations like op.

1. http://vidi.cs.ucdavis.edu/