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Very neat. Leaves me suspecting that a 2D rendition could be more readable / practical.
by btbuildem 12y ago
Very neat. Leaves me suspecting that a 2D rendition could be more readable / practical.
- rdtsc 12y agoA simple application based structure can be viewed with a built-in GUI debug/inspector. $ erl > observer:start(). Then can explore application structure and process hierarchy. It is not as dynamic as this and is coarser grained. But can inspect process state, loading, scheduler utilization.
- davidw 12y agoObserver is way more practical of course, but there's something very cool and futuristic about the 3D version. You expect Tony Stark to reach out and modify some of the processes or something. (You guys didn't know that Iron Man runs on Erlang?)
- rdtsc 12y agoHehe. When I was interning at a company and they had SGI systems back in the day. I accidentally stumbled on Fsn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn) and realized it was the file browser they used in Jurassic Park and it was real and I could actually use it.
- DanBC 12y agoThere are a few clones and similar 3d interfaces. http://nooface.net/3dui.shtml http://nooface.net/3dui.shtml Like VRML it seems it was a tech before its time. I'd love a modern version of one of these with Oculus.
- derefr 12y agoPeople compare Fsn to a lot of things (WinDirStat, etc.) but although they all attempt to do the same thing, none of them really do the visualization the same way (representing the filesystem as a recursively-weighted zoomable pie-chart.) The one program I know of that's at all similar is DaisyDisk (screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/5adRu0h.png http://i.imgur.com/5adRu0h.png). Seeing that representation makes me honestly wonder why OSes don't just build this sort of visualization right in as a folder "view" alongside tiles and lists.