The UX is garbage. It tracks my phone's motion, making it incredibly jittery (I guess I don't have the rock steady hands required?). And one finger starts an automatic zoom, while two fingers unzoom.
Software galaxies
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#62When you imagine that each dot is a program and that behind each of these dots, there is at least on person, it gives a very good appreciation of how complex each of these projects are. These are pretty big human architectures..
And it emphasizes the immense human effort involved in these projects.
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#63I love these kind of things: - https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource : generate a beautiful and organic videos from git repositorios. - https://code.google.com/archive/p/codeswarm/ : similar to Gource . - https://skyline.github.com : it is dead, like as Atom .
Hell yeah. In our department we setup Gource to render out a video every midnight and pimped it out with a bunch of overlays and profile pics to show project progress and to visualize who worked on what. Shown endlessly looping on an iPad in front of the department, so no contributions are forgotten, especially the ones by interns who participated only a short while.
Cool. Do you have public (in a git repo or something) this setup for Gource?
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#64Navigating the galaxies is frustratingly hard. One finger touch moves forward, but it makes very hard to touch a point and see what it is. I keep selecting something past it, especially for large dots, which I'm curious to see what they are. Rotating the device changes the direction but it's hard to point towards a specific star. On the good side it's very nice to look at. I wish there would be something as fast as t…
Although I agree that navigation via device orientation makes some navigation aspects difficult, I also find it oddly fascinating. It's like my phone has become a window into another world.
I think I had the same feelings
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, it was all new back then and people were playing with ideas, so a 3d file browser seemed like a cool idea. A bit like the metal roller on the Paris Metro ticket machines https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=9SjBfRA3YzA
The discoverability on those things is definitely lacking. I think it took us five or so broken touch-screens before my wife noticed that you could use that to select menu options instead! I guess once you know it's fine though? Feels a bit dated compared to the typical touch & go card payments elsewhere in Europe now though.
I couldn't work it out for a good while, because it's the most unintuitive UI I have found on reasonably recent ticket machines. Once you know how to use it, it's ok.
ProTip: if you travel from London on a train, the buffet sells Paris Metro tickets.
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#66No maven central?
I imagine it would be pretty large, too.
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#67Impressive visualization, for sure. But a honest question: What are real use cases of such a representation? I mean, can (and will) this be used in a productive manner for solving what kind of problems?
The only use I can imagine is to use it to write a guide on the available software. You can pick from the image clusters and make them into chapters in your guide or something like.
It could be very effective in some cases
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#68love this!
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#70Impressive visualization, for sure. But a honest question: What are real use cases of such a representation? I mean, can (and will) this be used in a productive manner for solving what kind of problems?
Seems like a very useful way to navigate on a large touchscreen.