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GoCity – Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code

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Re: GoCity – Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code

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Post by fulafel »

Reminds me of FSV: http://fsv.sourceforge.net/screenshots/10.png (which was a clone of some even earlier SGI demo app - http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool...)

Anyone know of other metaphorish visualizations that might be useful for navigating code or graphs?

Re: GoCity – Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code

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Post by ThePhysicist »

Very interesting! We built something very similar a few years ago for visualizing code complexity (or other metrics) over large code bases, it's also open-source:

http://quantifiedcode.github.io/code-is-beautiful/

Here's e.g. the cityscape visualization of the Django codebase:

http://quantifiedcode.github.io/code-is-beautiful/code-city/

We also did some 2D versions of the same graphs, which are often a bit easier to interact with.

Re: GoCity – Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code

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Post by quietbritishjim »

fulafel wrote: post #2

Reminds me of FSV: http://fsv.sourceforge.net/screenshots/10.png (which was a clone of some even earlier SGI demo app - http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool... ) Anyone know of other metaphorish visualizations that might be useful for navigating code or graphs?

How can you mention those tools without also noting their most famous on-screen appearance: the "hacking" scene from Jurassic Park :-)

This is almost the opposite of what you're asking for, but I am reminded of a rather more 2D version of these tools for finding what is using up space on your hard drive: the very excellent SpaceSniffer [1], which is sadly only for Windows.

[1] http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

Re: GoCity – Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code

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Post by cesarb »

quietbritishjim wrote: post #4
fulafel wrote: post #2

Reminds me of FSV: http://fsv.sourceforge.net/screenshots/10.png (which was a clone of some even earlier SGI demo app - http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool... ) Anyone know of other metaphorish visualizations that might be useful for navigating code or graphs?

How can you mention those tools without also noting their most famous on-screen appearance: the "hacking" scene from Jurassic Park :-) This is almost the opposite of what you're asking for, but I am reminded of a rather more 2D version of these tools for finding what is using up space on your hard drive: the very excellent SpaceSniffer [1], which is sadly only for Windows. [1] http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space…

That tool reminds me of KDirStat (http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/).

Re: GoCity – Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code

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Post by cesarb »

fulafel wrote: post #2

Reminds me of FSV: http://fsv.sourceforge.net/screenshots/10.png (which was a clone of some even earlier SGI demo app - http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool... ) Anyone know of other metaphorish visualizations that might be useful for navigating code or graphs?

A year ago a comment here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15494524) pointed me to Eagle Mode: http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/

Re: GoCity – Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code

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Post by weberc2 »

djhworld wrote: post #6
crawshaw wrote: post #5

If you want a test case for improving the rendering performance, try "github.com/juju/juju". It manages about 1 FPS on an iMac.

similar load test is to hit github.com/golang/go

Yeah, that crashed mobile safari for me when I tried it earlier. I imagine kubernetes would be tough as well.

Re: GoCity – Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code

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Post by dilap »

quietbritishjim wrote: post #4
fulafel wrote: post #2

Reminds me of FSV: http://fsv.sourceforge.net/screenshots/10.png (which was a clone of some even earlier SGI demo app - http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool... ) Anyone know of other metaphorish visualizations that might be useful for navigating code or graphs?

How can you mention those tools without also noting their most famous on-screen appearance: the "hacking" scene from Jurassic Park :-) This is almost the opposite of what you're asking for, but I am reminded of a rather more 2D version of these tools for finding what is using up space on your hard drive: the very excellent SpaceSniffer [1], which is sadly only for Windows. [1] http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space…

On the mac there is DaisyDisk
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