July 3, 2008, 9:19 pm
code_swarm, visualizing the life of an Open P2P Community
Categories: Complexity| Tools| Video
Tags: Art, Complex Systems, Free Software, Movie Design, Net Art, Open Source, processing.org, Swarm / Flock / Crowd, Visualization
code_swarm. An experiment in organic software visualization is an application created by Michael Ogawa with Processing, that gathers data about the history of an open source / free software community and visualizes it in a video. Here’s the video for the Python programming language:
code_swarm – Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.
I’ve been studying software projects for a while now. Not the programming, but the people — the way they interact with each other through collaboration and communication.

