Thursday, June 16, 2005

Constellation Big Tux and Giant wheel of Linux





Any guesses about what the above pictures represent ? They are drawing of lines of code in the Linux Kernel. The blue nebula shows 2.4.1 kernal and the wheel like diagram shows 2.4.0. Even though I am not sure about the value of these renderings, they look really amazing. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.brisset/kernel3d/kernel3d.html has an animation showing the growth of the Tux Nebula from v1.2.0 to v2.4.1.

http://fcgp.sourceforge.net/ is the source of the second picuture. The diagram above was originally a 22MB Postscript file.

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