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Software galaxies
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Re: Software galaxies
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of the 3D file browser user interface in Jurassic Park, which was an actual application. Looks cool but its not good to use (I mean the 3d file browser, not this software galaxies, which i found quite good). 3D interfaces rarely plan out, wonder if something like a vision pro or quest could make a 3D user interface work better than a 2D counterpart.
IIRC it was an SGI application - very cool but not terribly practical!
Yes, it was a SGI application. Probably used in the movie Hackers.
There was also a Doom file manager where you'd use BFG to nuke a directory. I only found one for Doom 3 but this also existed with original Doom. Nowadays, BFG is only used to nuke git repos.
Re: Software galaxies
#73This looks very nice, but a 2D visualization might have been more practical. For example, the fact that the dot size represents the total number of dependents is obscured by the fact that the dot sizes are also a function of camera distance.
What's used to compute distance?
I couldn't find any legend or description (mobile).
Edit Ah, noticed the bottom-right about: https://github.com/anvaka/pm/tree/master/about#software-gala...
Distance is seemingly arbitrary, decided by clustering algorithm.
Re: Software galaxies
#74My God! It's full of leftpads
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#75When 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..
Would be interesting to see one for the Linux Kernel. Each include an edge on the graph
Re: Software galaxies
#76Holy crap, Bower still exists?
I think this is a 9 year old snapshot of Bower
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#77Fun. Needs haskell hackage :-)
I wrote up some details about adding Elm packages to this if you want to do the same for hackage! https://mattbrandly.com/every-elm-package/
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#78Nuget has a lovely SampleDependency constellation.
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#79Navigating 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…
It seemed hard at first, until I decided to get up and pan around (looking like a fool).
Imagine you're in a spaceship and pushing down accelerates it.
It was fascinating how quickly this perspective gave me a sense of orientation.
Re: Software galaxies
#80I love anvaka's maps! See also reddit: https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/ and GitHub: https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/