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A 3D Animation of Kernel Source Development

Posted by michael on from the moving-pictures dept.

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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  1. Not that impressive... by case_igl · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...You should have seen some of the "sex on campus"
    seven degrees of separation white boards from my college days!

    (Yes, my "small patch" was rejected as too small to bother including)

  2. Eeeevil by Omikr0n · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm going to go ahead and test my university's bandwidth by mirroring the movies at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~omikron/linux3d/

  3. OMM - one more mirror by bradams · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://mynetpad.com/mirror/perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal .brisset/kernel3d/kernel3d.html

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  4. Browsing is step one by Jedi+Alec · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    That's all nice and cool, but could we have a 3D shooter next where you can use a BFG#### to go bughunting? ;-)

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  5. Finally! by zozzi · · Score: 5, Funny
    Finally a true clear picture of the kernel! With this concise clear and stunning graphical 3d image I can finally progress beyond the Hello World modules. Lost in a function? Not sure how the kernel works? I'll just look at the wonderful lines and dots buried in the haze of blue and hey presto! All is revealed. Thank you for the amazing contribution to the world of computer science! Next up: a graphical representation of all the source code bits after mangled through a blender..stay tuned!

    (or not)

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  6. visualizing complex data by fiiz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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