There's been a bunch of these videos on Vimeo lately for huge projects like Eclipse, Python and Apache. So here's the (much simpler) code swarm for Vimeo, dating back to a few weeks after we first first started using Subversion in Feb 07.
Here's an explanation
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from the Code Swarm website (http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm):
"This visualization shows the history of commits in a software project. A commit happens when a developer makes changes to the code. When a developer commits a file, it lights up and flies towards that developer. Files are colored according to their purpose, such as whether they are source code or a document. If files or developers have not been active for a while, they will fade away."
The song is Blur's "We've Got a File on You".
Cast: Andrew Pile, Peter McArthur, Ted Roden, Casey Pugh, Justin Ouellette, Jakob Lodwick, Zach Klein, Kevin Sheurs, Patrick Moberg, jzerby, Soxiam, Jake Oliver, Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken and Sean Nelson
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