Codeology: visualization of GitHub projects | Hacker News Reader

Codeology: visualization of GitHub projects

codeology.braintreepayments.com

54 pointsingve16 comments

For those that like things like this, check out http://gource.io/ - it's desktop only, but produces awesome visualizations. It works by going through your git history and essentially shows programmers buzzing around the code and updating files. It can do generic avatars, or even download their gravatar if they have one.

A lot of videos online, but two great ones are:

* The History of Python https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRjTyRly5WA * 800+ days of Minecraft in 8 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRjTyRly5WA

The other two videos are a bit crowded showing filenames. You can filter that out. The evolution of linux takes a different approach and filters out the filenames so you can see the people involved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrmnlP9oaQ4

I just downloaded(brewed) it on ElCapitan, and it crashes with Segmentation Fault: 11 promptly!

This must have been a cool project to work on. It's nice that Paypal marketing is willing to put money into something like this over Ads, I'm sure it will generate some good links and "Awareness" amongst developers for Braintree Payments.

> marketing is willing to put money into something like this over Ads

Not exactly. I'm sure this cost a few orders of magnitudes less than e.g. plastering London with posters written in white on black monospace.

No workee. "Enter anyway" no workee. Version 48.0.2564.116 (64-bit), DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa"

Same here. Chromium Version 48.0.2564.82 Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on LinuxMint 17.3 (64-bit)

same, but with firefox 44.0.2 on archlinux. probably having linux specific problems :/

Can you try now? http://codeology.braintreepayments.com/

also, do other webgl sites work for you? http://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_interactive_cubes

So I typed my name and clicked one of my repos and I have a small green butterfly model to view at low resolution, and I can read the description I can read on github. If I click on it or attempt to interact with it in any way, it's deselected... what exactly am I looking at?

I really like things like this, and Codeology seems nicely done. I just wish the forms created gave a bit more meaningful insight into the project - perhaps communicating something about commit history, project structure, contributor network, or comments.

Cool visualizations ... A few comments / suggestions:

1) running the landing page in the background caused a lot of CPU churn and slowed my laptop. Consider moving to a simple animation for the landing.

2) Error that my browser is not supported (next to most recent chrome), but it worked anyway.

3) Interesting visualization, lowering color depth may improve performance without much loss of fidelity.

4) Some easily accessible key/explanation for chunks that are whizzing around -- whether that is a key or labels within visualization. Maybe I just didn't dig deep enough, but having that default on or prominent to turn on will help new users understand the visualization better.

Nice project!

Looks nice, though I do not get what I see. There is some correlation between distro size and visualization size, though why some repos have tentacle shapes, and others are blobs?

The shapes are primarily determined by the programming language used.

This looks heaps pretty - sort of like my own lil zen garden of pokemon or something

Reply on news.ycombinator.com