Gource Source Code Revision History Visualization

Andrew Caudwell’s “Gource” is an animated visualization tool for viewing GIT & CVS source repositories.  From the description:

Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the root directory of the project at its centre. Directories appear as branches with files as leaves. Developers can be seen working on the tree at the times they contributed to the project.

The videos show directories and files appear and bounce around on the graph, while the contributors fly around and touch files.  Some impressive videos are online, see a few after the break.

via gource – Project Hosting on Google Code. via infosthetics

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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