The “Break it Down” Blog

Visualization of the World’s Air Traffic – Unbelievable

This comes in courtesy of Robert Heron. It’s a fascinating animation of the world’s air-traffic. I cannot believe how much air traffic takes place over the US and during any given day, I don’t think I really ever see an airplane in the sky or hear one.

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Visualization of Eclipse Project Source Code Commits

Grant Gochnauer sent in a cool visualization to the source code history, starting in 2001 with the initial code drop, of the Eclipse source code repository (including the extra projects). If you are a coder or just like to see visually how huge collaborative projects grow, check it out: code_swarm – Eclipse (short ver.) from Michael Ogawa [...]

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glTail.rb: Real Time OpenGL Log Visualization

“Fudgie” took a personal challenge from his boss to see if he could make log visualization interesting from your Apache log file. 1 week, some Ruby and some OpenGL later he created glTail.rb; a real-time Apache log visualization toolthat uses OpenGL to render some interesting effects that represent traffic (Supported on Mac and Linux). It’s hard [...]

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