A 3D Animation of Kernel Source Development

fixit! writes "Have a look at this cool 3D animation of the Linux kernel source. This is how a source browser should look like!"

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visualizing complex data

[fiiz]

Yes, that is interesting indeed.

I think in general there may be interesting research to be done in the area of mapping/visualization of complex data: for instance this project of mapping the internet.

Does this really help in general? Are there many cases where such visual maps would help understanding of complex data?
Think for example, it may be interesting to produce such a map of everything2, which is a sort of hyperlinked online encyclopedia, to see where the clustering is.

In astrophysics, 3D maps of the universe have been produced for some time, and the human-eye understanding of large-scale structure was at first more direct than statistical analysis--for instance, people would see the famous filaments, but stats wouldn't.

A post above quoted the possible use in spotting "usefulness" of code contributions, by looking at their interdependencies for example.