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Visualize Your Source Code with CodeFlower
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App Developer Magazine

Programming

Visualize Your Source Code with CodeFlower


Thursday, March 7, 2013

Richard Harris Richard Harris


Do you ever wonder what your source code would look like if it could be represented in a picture?

The CodeFlower experiment visualizes source repositories using an interactive tree. Each disc represents a file, with a radius proportional to the number of lines of code (loc). All rendering is done client-side, in JavaScript. 

Built with d3.js and used by calling it in JQuery (reminds me of LUA though).
var myFlower = new CodeFlower("#visualization", 300, 200);
myflower.update(jsonData);



Visualize Your Source Code with CodeFlower




Read more: http://redotheweb.com/CodeFlower/




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