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Software galaxies

747 points by matesz 2y ago

arendtio 2y ago
The graphics remind me very much of Netwars [1], although the controls of Netwars were a little bit better. However, this feels so good compared to some randomly generated universe, as you know that every star is something meaningful. And you can find actually helpful stuff: I just found logrus [2] a Go library for logging, which sounds cool :-D 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWars 2: https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus
matesz 2y ago
https://github.com/anvaka/pm/blob/master/about/README.md https://github.com/anvaka/pm/blob/master/about/README.md
pmontra 2y ago
Navigating 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 this for navigating real galaxies, with of course better controls.
- Varriount 2y ago
  Although I agree that navigation via device orientation makes some navigation aspects difficult, I also find it oddly fascinating. It's like my phone has become a window into another world.
  - ErigmolCt 2y ago
    I think I had the same feelings
- sva_ 2y ago
  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.
- soraminazuki 2y ago
  It was easy with a PC and keyboard.
- metadat 2y ago
  Mobile was awful, but from the desktop W-A-S-D + the arrows make navigating pretty fun.
marapuru 2y ago
Interesting and very cool! But since navigating around is not easy, would it be an idea to implement a game like controller that allows you to move around? Current controls are not working so well.
- deleted 2y ago
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- artpar 2y ago
  seems to be done in the same way, but the parameters are off. aswd (camera angle) + arrow keys(panning) works nicely when zoomed out but very sensitive when zoomed in.
cloudwalk9 2y ago
I imagine Gentoo would be extremely difficult to visualize because USE flags add a 4th spatial dimension...
vavooom 2y ago
Maybe provide some insights on the main clusters identified? I think of this youtube video on Wikipedia Graph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JheGL6uSF-4&ab_channel=adumb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JheGL6uSF-4&ab_channel=adumb
edweis 2y ago
Beautiful work
omoikane 2y ago
This 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.
- zbendefy 2y ago
  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.
  - aphrax 2y ago
    IIRC it was an SGI application - very cool but not terribly practical!
    - surfingdino 2y ago
      To be fair, it was all new back then and people were playing with ideas, so a 3d file browser seemed like a cool idea. A bit like the metal roller on the Paris Metro ticket machines https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=9SjBfRA3YzA https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=9SjBfRA3YzA
      - dcminter 2y ago
        The discoverability on those things is definitely lacking. I think it took us five or so broken touch-screens before my wife noticed that you could use that to select menu options instead! I guess once you know it's fine though? Feels a bit dated compared to the typical touch & go card payments elsewhere in Europe now though.
        surfingdino 2y ago
mdtrooper 2y ago
I love these kind of things: - https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource : generate a beautiful and organic videos from git repositorios. - https://code.google.com/archive/p/codeswarm/ https://code.google.com/archive/p/codeswarm/ : similar to Gource . - https://skyline.github.com https://skyline.github.com : it is dead, like as Atom .
- FrostKiwi 2y ago
  Hell yeah. In our department we setup Gource to render out a video every midnight and pimped it out with a bunch of overlays and profile pics to show project progress and to visualize who worked on what. Shown endlessly looping on an iPad in front of the department, so no contributions are forgotten, especially the ones by interns who participated only a short while.
  - mdtrooper 2y ago
    Cool. Do you have public (in a git repo or something) this setup for Gource?
  - gavinhoward 2y ago
    +1 for providing the setup if you can. I love Gource.
theoa 2y ago
Wonderful! Want more. Every blob displays its icon Mouseover over displays much more stuff Right-click: the world is your oyster Ctrl-click: make a group, etc, much much more Ultimately: create 3D bash/OS/
- martypitt 2y ago
  This is a UNIX System! I know this!
peteforde 2y ago
I'm a bit confused by the Rubygems visualization. Many popular gems appear to be missing, and the role of Rails in the ecosystem is something you could miss if you weren't explicitly looking for it. Cool viz, just not 100% clear what I'm looking at.
pyeri 2y ago
Off topic, I still couldn't find an easy or seamless way to search GitHub repos by keywords (repo name, coding language, etc) and have them order by most stars descending.
- SushiHippie 2y ago
  Weird you are right I just tried this: https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Arust&type=repositories&s=stars&o=desc https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Arust&type=repositories&s=... Filter by language to rust and then select sort by most stars, and the top repository has 249 stars... Though if I add a filter for stars greater than 1000 the results look way better: https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Arust+stars%3A%3E1000&type=repositories&s=stars&o=desc https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Arust+stars%3A%3E1000&type...
KolmogorovComp 2y ago
It seems cool but is completely unusable on mobile. It still amaze me how today people do not think about designing mobile-first website. The gap between devs and users is far from closed yet.
- Arch-TK 2y ago
  Assuming this was done in free time, for fun and posted here because it looks cool, why would you hold these expectations? This is the kind of expectations you should have of a commercial product that you're paying for. Not of someone's random side project.
  - KolmogorovComp 2y ago
    As you’ve said given it's a project done in their freetime I don’t have any expectations. At the same time when I design a project I want to share to others (in my free-time too), I always think about making it working for the majority of the users (mobile in that case).
    - neontomo 2y ago
      I do too, but usually not until I've first validated the idea is interesting to people. Not much sense in optimising the wrong thing.
    - mgnienie 2y ago
      It's for us geeks, not the majority :)
- gluke77 2y ago
  How users (who are non-devs) are planning to use this piece, I wonder. Also is there any well established web-native way to navigate in 3d space, that works on mobile? Personally, quake-style keyboard only navigation on my desktop works like a charm.
etwigg 2y ago
super cool, but no jvm maven central?
- ivolimmen 2y ago
  Yeah that is what I came to ask here as well. Also no p2... Edit: I see someone open an issue for it https://github.com/anvaka/pm/issues/2 https://github.com/anvaka/pm/issues/2
kreyenborgi 2y ago
Fun. Needs haskell hackage :-)
- brandly 2y ago
  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/ https://mattbrandly.com/every-elm-package/
rpgwaiter 2y ago
This is so cool! I’d love to see this kind of thing for nixpkgs
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visarga 2y ago
Where is CPAN, I don't see it.
gregorvand 2y ago
This is very hard to understand
adityaathalye 2y ago
This is art! I wonder... What if the depth at which a package first appears depends on its release date? And what if each universe evolves in terms of package releases?
dim13 2y ago
As for Go, the dataset looks very-very old and outdated. At least 5 to 10 years old.
- kkoncevicius 2y ago
  Same for R
- kubanczyk 2y ago
  For Golang they used some exotic aggregator site, and it seems it went defunct years ago. I've tried clicking a few packages and was served casino ads.
jzer0cool 2y ago
How does this manage to plot so many points yet running pretty smoothly here on a low end computer browser?
- sva_ 2y ago
  I'd presume a WebGL particle shader
Kuinox 2y ago
Lots of star in the nuget galaxy, but there is not several package I worked on :(.
robertlagrant 2y ago
Incredible. The amount of effort that goes into each of those dots.
ggm 2y ago
Brew but not ports or pkgsrc
me_bx 2y ago
From the same author: * Related subreddits graph - https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=linux * Map of reddit - https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/?x=18239&y=12514&z=32433.55559794627&v=2
witx 2y ago
This is such a cool visualization. It's so interesting to see that Rust's embedded libraries are on a more separate, dense, group.
dirkc 2y ago
Wow, I love this. A long time ago I did some dependency graphs for gentoo linux packages [1] and also for a django project [2]. I put all the packages on a circle with dependencies being drawn as lines. This is so much cooler! [1] https://www.thebacklog.net/2011/04/04/a-nice-picture-of-dependency-hell/ https://www.thebacklog.net/2011/04/04/a-nice-picture-of-depe... [2] https://www.thebacklog.net/2012/10/13/visualizing-lernantas-inter-dependancies/ https://www.thebacklog.net/2012/10/13/visualizing-lernantas-...
smartmic 2y ago
Impressive visualization, for sure. But a honest question: What are real use cases of such a representation? I mean, can (and will) this be used in a productive manner for solving what kind of problems?
- throwaway55533 2y ago
  no.
- ordu 2y ago
  The only use I can imagine is to use it to write a guide on the available software. You can pick from the image clusters and make them into chapters in your guide or something like.
  - ErigmolCt 2y ago
    It could be very effective in some cases
- Fnoord 2y ago
  Seems like a very useful way to navigate on a large touchscreen.
wiz21c 2y ago
When 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..
- martin-adams 2y ago
  [flagged]
- ErigmolCt 2y ago
  And it emphasizes the immense human effort involved in these projects.
- sva_ 2y ago
  Would be interesting to see one for the Linux Kernel. Each include an edge on the graph
yayr 2y ago
just to be a bit astronomically nitpicky ... ;-) they are more like star clusters than galaxies. Galaxies usually have a lot of mostly circular momentum with arms forming etc. might be even the better marketing term "Software star clusters" not to mention the widely accepted hypothesis that galaxies require dark matter to be held together... we don't want to dive into the analogy here for software, or do we? ;-)
- HPsquared 2y ago
  Not to be confused with Github stars and their social dynamics.
- bregma 2y ago
  But really it's the dark web that binds us all?
classified 2y ago
I'm a bit disappointed that it has Homebrew, but not MacPorts, which is superior in my opinion.
BoppreH 2y ago
The gyroscope aiming on mobile is fantastic! I've never seen a demo with such small latency and responsive to small movements. Even more impressive by being a web page and not a native web.
zheninghuang 2y ago
Doing a Research paper Galaxies would also be interesting, especially in the domain of AI.
bombela 2y ago
The UX is garbage. It tracks my phone's motion, making it incredibly jittery (I guess I don't have the rock steady hands required?). And one finger starts an automatic zoom, while two fingers unzoom.
jackcviers3 2y ago
No maven central? I imagine it would be pretty large, too.
viveknathani_ 2y ago
love this!
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ramesh31 2y ago
Holy crap, Bower still exists?
- brandly 2y ago
  I think this is a 9 year old snapshot of Bower
tantalor 2y ago
My God! It's full of leftpads
- egorfine 2y ago
  is-even was the first package I have tried to search.
rmorey 2y ago
I love anvaka's maps! See also reddit: https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/ https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/ and GitHub: https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/ https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/
- wing-_-nuts 2y ago
  I use his reddit graph all the time to find related subs. That one is 2d and imho is much more useful than a 3d visualization. Sad that it's probably not getting updated any longer due to reddit's apis no longer being available.
xnorswap 2y ago
Nuget has a lovely SampleDependency constellation.
sachahjkl 2y ago
no nix pkgs, what's even the point
- brandly 2y ago
  Add the dataset!
ahmadnoid 2y ago
Am I the only one who is getting some sort of gambling site (go-search.org) when clicking on golang galaxy?
- linux2647 2y ago
  That’s what I get too
- SushiHippie 2y ago
  https://github.com/anvaka/pm/issues/44 https://github.com/anvaka/pm/issues/44 Yep, seems like someone already opened an issue
quectophoton 2y ago
Links in the Go galaxy point to a casino page.
klibertp 2y ago
Is it just me, my extensions, or are the controls broken in Firefox?
- ICameToComment 2y ago
  I have difficulties too. "d" does nothing so I can only shift to the left.
- numbers 2y ago
  might be you, I am on firefox and things work fine. Press ? key to show the controls if you don't see them.
Nischalj10 2y ago
this is crazyyyy
flkenosad 2y ago
Shit that's cool.
drofmij 2y ago
can we do one for the java + maven repository galaxy?
- atonalfreerider 2y ago
  primitive.io has a VR browser for Java Maven, .Net, Node, Pip and PhP Disclosure: founder posting here
Kophyo2581991 2y ago
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chasetca 2y ago
This project reminds me of Gource. Both Gource and this are fun novelties to play with but this it from the project level to the registry level. Would have liked to see vcpkg and Conan in here, too. I imagine zlib, OpenSSL, and a few other staples would be the center.
DrNosferatu 2y ago
Couldn’t find the TensorFlow family in the Python galaxy…
chuckadams 2y ago
Couldn’t make the Elm galaxy show up on my phone. Anyone know what accounts for the disconnected islands? I know Elm has a fairly closed-off core development process that could be part of it, but can’t otherwise tell…
- zachrose 2y ago
  Perhaps it's the versioning? Like in the way that libraries for Elm 0.18 are often (mostly? always?) incompatible with 0.19. (N.B. 0.19 has been the latest version for almost six years.)
tcmart14 2y ago
How is this data getting populated? I go to click into rust to see if I project I work on is there, and it isn't, even though its been on crates.io for years.
j1mmie 2y ago
Saw an odd little cluster in distance of the NPM galaxy and decided to explore more: https://i.imgur.com/PIXKU1A.png https://i.imgur.com/PIXKU1A.png It's strongcanary-a through strongcanary-z, and more. They're packages designed to test strongly-connected components in a dependency graph. https://www.npmjs.com/package/strongcanary-a https://www.npmjs.com/package/strongcanary-a Looks like this tool passes the test! Cool that it was so identifiable from a distance
JohnScolaro 2y ago
Cool website, but I'm in a barbershop right now and can't wave my phone around like a madman to see the map. I'd love it if I could drag the sphere around with my finger on the screen.
jatkindev 2y ago
SO f*ng cool!!!!
antifa 2y ago
Seems unusable with unintuitive undiscoverable controls, standard touch screen controls like pinch-zoom and pan don't work on Firefox for Android. The about page says something about rotating your device, but that's a pretty bold assumption that the user wants to do that, or isn't currently on a subway/bus or otherwise in a fixed position like a stand, large tablet, or the user could have various disabilities.
s2l 2y ago
Now imagine, if there was a timeline to show the evolution.
araes 2y ago
Wandering around in the javascript realm, there was some amusing stuff out at the borders. Eject the warp core: https://i.imgur.com/h1ngR7A.png https://i.imgur.com/h1ngR7A.png Barren bare defaults: https://i.imgur.com/hLWXqER.png https://i.imgur.com/hLWXqER.png Ideal atomic separation: https://i.imgur.com/3lmujgV.png https://i.imgur.com/3lmujgV.png Rides his black horse upon the horizon: https://i.imgur.com/e6NnsDv.png https://i.imgur.com/e6NnsDv.png Not joke part, it's a neat visualization, just a bit confusing on the distribution. There were a few, like Microsoft being way off in their own world that were kind of obvious. Yet much of the distribution seemed like stuff that was related, but got put way off somewhere without any clear link. I ended up finding angularJS refs way out in the border.
kagevf 2y ago
Too bad there isn't one for quicklisp...

747 points by matesz 2y ago

The graphics remind me very much of Netwars [1], although the controls of Netwars were a little bit better. However, this feels so good compared to some randomly generated universe, as you know that every star is something meaningful. And you can find actually helpful stuff: I just found logrus [2] a Go library for logging, which sounds cool :-D 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWars 2: https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus

matesz 2y ago

https://github.com/anvaka/pm/blob/master/about/README.md https://github.com/anvaka/pm/blob/master/about/README.md

pmontra 2y ago

Navigating 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 this for navigating real galaxies, with of course better controls.

Varriount 2y ago
Although I agree that navigation via device orientation makes some navigation aspects difficult, I also find it oddly fascinating. It's like my phone has become a window into another world.
- ErigmolCt 2y ago
  I think I had the same feelings
sva_ 2y ago
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.
soraminazuki 2y ago
It was easy with a PC and keyboard.
metadat 2y ago
Mobile was awful, but from the desktop W-A-S-D + the arrows make navigating pretty fun.

marapuru 2y ago

Interesting and very cool! But since navigating around is not easy, would it be an idea to implement a game like controller that allows you to move around? Current controls are not working so well.

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artpar 2y ago
seems to be done in the same way, but the parameters are off. aswd (camera angle) + arrow keys(panning) works nicely when zoomed out but very sensitive when zoomed in.

cloudwalk9 2y ago

I imagine Gentoo would be extremely difficult to visualize because USE flags add a 4th spatial dimension...

vavooom 2y ago

Maybe provide some insights on the main clusters identified? I think of this youtube video on Wikipedia Graph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JheGL6uSF-4&ab_channel=adumb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JheGL6uSF-4&ab_channel=adumb

edweis 2y ago

Beautiful work

omoikane 2y ago

This 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.

zbendefy 2y ago
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.
- aphrax 2y ago
  IIRC it was an SGI application - very cool but not terribly practical!
  - surfingdino 2y ago
    To be fair, it was all new back then and people were playing with ideas, so a 3d file browser seemed like a cool idea. A bit like the metal roller on the Paris Metro ticket machines https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=9SjBfRA3YzA https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=9SjBfRA3YzA
    - dcminter 2y ago
      The discoverability on those things is definitely lacking. I think it took us five or so broken touch-screens before my wife noticed that you could use that to select menu options instead! I guess once you know it's fine though? Feels a bit dated compared to the typical touch & go card payments elsewhere in Europe now though.
      - surfingdino 2y ago

mdtrooper 2y ago

I love these kind of things: - https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource : generate a beautiful and organic videos from git repositorios. - https://code.google.com/archive/p/codeswarm/ https://code.google.com/archive/p/codeswarm/ : similar to Gource . - https://skyline.github.com https://skyline.github.com : it is dead, like as Atom .

FrostKiwi 2y ago
Hell yeah. In our department we setup Gource to render out a video every midnight and pimped it out with a bunch of overlays and profile pics to show project progress and to visualize who worked on what. Shown endlessly looping on an iPad in front of the department, so no contributions are forgotten, especially the ones by interns who participated only a short while.
- mdtrooper 2y ago
  Cool. Do you have public (in a git repo or something) this setup for Gource?
- gavinhoward 2y ago
  +1 for providing the setup if you can. I love Gource.

theoa 2y ago

Wonderful! Want more. Every blob displays its icon Mouseover over displays much more stuff Right-click: the world is your oyster Ctrl-click: make a group, etc, much much more Ultimately: create 3D bash/OS/

martypitt 2y ago
This is a UNIX System! I know this!

peteforde 2y ago

I'm a bit confused by the Rubygems visualization. Many popular gems appear to be missing, and the role of Rails in the ecosystem is something you could miss if you weren't explicitly looking for it. Cool viz, just not 100% clear what I'm looking at.

pyeri 2y ago

Off topic, I still couldn't find an easy or seamless way to search GitHub repos by keywords (repo name, coding language, etc) and have them order by most stars descending.

SushiHippie 2y ago
Weird you are right I just tried this: https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Arust&type=repositories&s=stars&o=desc https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Arust&type=repositories&s=... Filter by language to rust and then select sort by most stars, and the top repository has 249 stars... Though if I add a filter for stars greater than 1000 the results look way better: https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Arust+stars%3A%3E1000&type=repositories&s=stars&o=desc https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Arust+stars%3A%3E1000&type...

KolmogorovComp 2y ago

It seems cool but is completely unusable on mobile. It still amaze me how today people do not think about designing mobile-first website. The gap between devs and users is far from closed yet.

Arch-TK 2y ago
Assuming this was done in free time, for fun and posted here because it looks cool, why would you hold these expectations? This is the kind of expectations you should have of a commercial product that you're paying for. Not of someone's random side project.
- KolmogorovComp 2y ago
  As you’ve said given it's a project done in their freetime I don’t have any expectations. At the same time when I design a project I want to share to others (in my free-time too), I always think about making it working for the majority of the users (mobile in that case).
  - neontomo 2y ago
    I do too, but usually not until I've first validated the idea is interesting to people. Not much sense in optimising the wrong thing.
  - mgnienie 2y ago
    It's for us geeks, not the majority :)
gluke77 2y ago
How users (who are non-devs) are planning to use this piece, I wonder. Also is there any well established web-native way to navigate in 3d space, that works on mobile? Personally, quake-style keyboard only navigation on my desktop works like a charm.

etwigg 2y ago

super cool, but no jvm maven central?

ivolimmen 2y ago
Yeah that is what I came to ask here as well. Also no p2... Edit: I see someone open an issue for it https://github.com/anvaka/pm/issues/2 https://github.com/anvaka/pm/issues/2

kreyenborgi 2y ago

Fun. Needs haskell hackage :-)

brandly 2y ago
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/ https://mattbrandly.com/every-elm-package/

rpgwaiter 2y ago

This is so cool! I’d love to see this kind of thing for nixpkgs

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visarga 2y ago

Where is CPAN, I don't see it.

gregorvand 2y ago

This is very hard to understand

adityaathalye 2y ago

This is art! I wonder... What if the depth at which a package first appears depends on its release date? And what if each universe evolves in terms of package releases?

dim13 2y ago

As for Go, the dataset looks very-very old and outdated. At least 5 to 10 years old.

kkoncevicius 2y ago
Same for R
kubanczyk 2y ago
For Golang they used some exotic aggregator site, and it seems it went defunct years ago. I've tried clicking a few packages and was served casino ads.

jzer0cool 2y ago

How does this manage to plot so many points yet running pretty smoothly here on a low end computer browser?

sva_ 2y ago
I'd presume a WebGL particle shader

Kuinox 2y ago

Lots of star in the nuget galaxy, but there is not several package I worked on :(.

robertlagrant 2y ago

Incredible. The amount of effort that goes into each of those dots.

ggm 2y ago

Brew but not ports or pkgsrc

me_bx 2y ago

From the same author: * Related subreddits graph - https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=linux * Map of reddit - https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/?x=18239&y=12514&z=32433.55559794627&v=2

witx 2y ago

This is such a cool visualization. It's so interesting to see that Rust's embedded libraries are on a more separate, dense, group.

dirkc 2y ago

Wow, I love this. A long time ago I did some dependency graphs for gentoo linux packages [1] and also for a django project [2]. I put all the packages on a circle with dependencies being drawn as lines. This is so much cooler! [1] https://www.thebacklog.net/2011/04/04/a-nice-picture-of-dependency-hell/ https://www.thebacklog.net/2011/04/04/a-nice-picture-of-depe... [2] https://www.thebacklog.net/2012/10/13/visualizing-lernantas-inter-dependancies/ https://www.thebacklog.net/2012/10/13/visualizing-lernantas-...

smartmic 2y ago

Impressive visualization, for sure. But a honest question: What are real use cases of such a representation? I mean, can (and will) this be used in a productive manner for solving what kind of problems?

throwaway55533 2y ago
no.
ordu 2y ago
The only use I can imagine is to use it to write a guide on the available software. You can pick from the image clusters and make them into chapters in your guide or something like.
- ErigmolCt 2y ago
  It could be very effective in some cases
Fnoord 2y ago
Seems like a very useful way to navigate on a large touchscreen.

wiz21c 2y ago

When 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..

martin-adams 2y ago
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ErigmolCt 2y ago
And it emphasizes the immense human effort involved in these projects.
sva_ 2y ago
Would be interesting to see one for the Linux Kernel. Each include an edge on the graph

yayr 2y ago

just to be a bit astronomically nitpicky ... ;-) they are more like star clusters than galaxies. Galaxies usually have a lot of mostly circular momentum with arms forming etc. might be even the better marketing term "Software star clusters" not to mention the widely accepted hypothesis that galaxies require dark matter to be held together... we don't want to dive into the analogy here for software, or do we? ;-)

HPsquared 2y ago
Not to be confused with Github stars and their social dynamics.
bregma 2y ago
But really it's the dark web that binds us all?

classified 2y ago

I'm a bit disappointed that it has Homebrew, but not MacPorts, which is superior in my opinion.

BoppreH 2y ago

The gyroscope aiming on mobile is fantastic! I've never seen a demo with such small latency and responsive to small movements. Even more impressive by being a web page and not a native web.

zheninghuang 2y ago

Doing a Research paper Galaxies would also be interesting, especially in the domain of AI.

bombela 2y ago

The UX is garbage. It tracks my phone's motion, making it incredibly jittery (I guess I don't have the rock steady hands required?). And one finger starts an automatic zoom, while two fingers unzoom.

jackcviers3 2y ago

No maven central? I imagine it would be pretty large, too.

viveknathani_ 2y ago

love this!

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ramesh31 2y ago

Holy crap, Bower still exists?

brandly 2y ago
I think this is a 9 year old snapshot of Bower

tantalor 2y ago

My God! It's full of leftpads

egorfine 2y ago
is-even was the first package I have tried to search.

rmorey 2y ago

I love anvaka's maps! See also reddit: https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/ https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/ and GitHub: https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/ https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/

wing-_-nuts 2y ago
I use his reddit graph all the time to find related subs. That one is 2d and imho is much more useful than a 3d visualization. Sad that it's probably not getting updated any longer due to reddit's apis no longer being available.

xnorswap 2y ago

Nuget has a lovely SampleDependency constellation.

sachahjkl 2y ago

no nix pkgs, what's even the point

brandly 2y ago
Add the dataset!

ahmadnoid 2y ago

Am I the only one who is getting some sort of gambling site (go-search.org) when clicking on golang galaxy?

linux2647 2y ago
That’s what I get too
SushiHippie 2y ago
https://github.com/anvaka/pm/issues/44 https://github.com/anvaka/pm/issues/44 Yep, seems like someone already opened an issue

quectophoton 2y ago

Links in the Go galaxy point to a casino page.

klibertp 2y ago

Is it just me, my extensions, or are the controls broken in Firefox?

ICameToComment 2y ago
I have difficulties too. "d" does nothing so I can only shift to the left.
numbers 2y ago
might be you, I am on firefox and things work fine. Press ? key to show the controls if you don't see them.

Nischalj10 2y ago

this is crazyyyy

flkenosad 2y ago

Shit that's cool.

drofmij 2y ago

can we do one for the java + maven repository galaxy?

atonalfreerider 2y ago
primitive.io has a VR browser for Java Maven, .Net, Node, Pip and PhP Disclosure: founder posting here

Kophyo2581991 2y ago

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chasetca 2y ago

This project reminds me of Gource. Both Gource and this are fun novelties to play with but this it from the project level to the registry level. Would have liked to see vcpkg and Conan in here, too. I imagine zlib, OpenSSL, and a few other staples would be the center.

DrNosferatu 2y ago

Couldn’t find the TensorFlow family in the Python galaxy…

chuckadams 2y ago

Couldn’t make the Elm galaxy show up on my phone. Anyone know what accounts for the disconnected islands? I know Elm has a fairly closed-off core development process that could be part of it, but can’t otherwise tell…

zachrose 2y ago
Perhaps it's the versioning? Like in the way that libraries for Elm 0.18 are often (mostly? always?) incompatible with 0.19. (N.B. 0.19 has been the latest version for almost six years.)

tcmart14 2y ago

How is this data getting populated? I go to click into rust to see if I project I work on is there, and it isn't, even though its been on crates.io for years.

j1mmie 2y ago

Saw an odd little cluster in distance of the NPM galaxy and decided to explore more: https://i.imgur.com/PIXKU1A.png https://i.imgur.com/PIXKU1A.png It's strongcanary-a through strongcanary-z, and more. They're packages designed to test strongly-connected components in a dependency graph. https://www.npmjs.com/package/strongcanary-a https://www.npmjs.com/package/strongcanary-a Looks like this tool passes the test! Cool that it was so identifiable from a distance

JohnScolaro 2y ago

Cool website, but I'm in a barbershop right now and can't wave my phone around like a madman to see the map. I'd love it if I could drag the sphere around with my finger on the screen.

jatkindev 2y ago

SO f*ng cool!!!!

antifa 2y ago

Seems unusable with unintuitive undiscoverable controls, standard touch screen controls like pinch-zoom and pan don't work on Firefox for Android. The about page says something about rotating your device, but that's a pretty bold assumption that the user wants to do that, or isn't currently on a subway/bus or otherwise in a fixed position like a stand, large tablet, or the user could have various disabilities.

s2l 2y ago

Now imagine, if there was a timeline to show the evolution.

araes 2y ago

Wandering around in the javascript realm, there was some amusing stuff out at the borders. Eject the warp core: https://i.imgur.com/h1ngR7A.png https://i.imgur.com/h1ngR7A.png Barren bare defaults: https://i.imgur.com/hLWXqER.png https://i.imgur.com/hLWXqER.png Ideal atomic separation: https://i.imgur.com/3lmujgV.png https://i.imgur.com/3lmujgV.png Rides his black horse upon the horizon: https://i.imgur.com/e6NnsDv.png https://i.imgur.com/e6NnsDv.png Not joke part, it's a neat visualization, just a bit confusing on the distribution. There were a few, like Microsoft being way off in their own world that were kind of obvious. Yet much of the distribution seemed like stuff that was related, but got put way off somewhere without any clear link. I ended up finding angularJS refs way out in the border.

kagevf 2y ago

Too bad there isn't one for quicklisp...