Apache Commit Visualisation – code_swarm

The video below is a brilliant piece of work by Michael Ogawa – a visualisation of the commit history of the Apache httpd. It was built using Processing and the source is here, theoretically (i.e. I haven’t tried) allowing you to produce a similar visualisation for any project.

code_swarm – Apache from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.

I suggest viewing it in full-screen mode.

There are several other examples available at the project page. Impressive though it is, I can’t help thinking that an interactive version of this would elevate the concept from eye-candy to something extremely useful.

Update: Ok, an interactive version like this perhaps. Wow!