Rabidgremlin's Soapbox » Animation http://blog.rabidgremlin.com A little soapbox for me to stand on and rant from. Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:11:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 SvnViz 1.0.0 Released http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2009/08/12/svnviz-1-0-0-released/ http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2009/08/12/svnviz-1-0-0-released/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:41:43 +0000 jack http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/?p=511 Finally got off my butt and packaged up version 1.0.0 of SvnViz. It can be downloaded from sourceforge.

SvnViz builds visualizations of the activity within a Subversion repository. Here is an example of the default visualization run against the project that I am currently working on. Green dots indicate file adds, blue dots are modified files and red dots are deleted files. The greater the activity of the user the higher their score.

Click here to view the embedded video.

SvnViz also provides a framework for creating your own visualizations. Simply extend the FrameViz class and implement the generateFrame method. To run your vizualization class, instead of the default class, just pass the fully qualified name of your class to the application using the -vc parameter.

Source files can be downloaded from here. All code is released under the GPL.

Have fun and drop me a line if you come up with an interesting visualization.

]]> http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2009/08/12/svnviz-1-0-0-released/feed/ 3 “9″ looks very cool. http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2009/01/10/9-looks-very-cool/ http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2009/01/10/9-looks-very-cool/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:58:16 +0000 jack http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/?p=310 Just came across this animated movie due for release end of next year. Its called “9″. It is based on a short animated film and is been produced by Tim Burton. The voice cast includes Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, John C Reilly, and Christopher Plummer.

I really love the animation style and the design of the rag doll characters. Here is the trailer:

Click here to view the embedded video.

]]> http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2009/01/10/9-looks-very-cool/feed/ 0 The history of the Internet http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2009/01/06/the-history-of-the-internet/ http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2009/01/06/the-history-of-the-internet/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:14:59 +0000 jack http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/?p=305 A very nice video explaining the origins of the Internet. Love the clean, simple (mostly) black and white animation.


History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

The icons used are from the PICOL project which is the Pictorial Communication Language and is a project to find a standard and reduced sign system for electronic communication.

]]> http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2009/01/06/the-history-of-the-internet/feed/ 0 Happy holidays from Air New Zealand http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2008/12/19/happy-holidays-from-air-new-zealand/ http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2008/12/19/happy-holidays-from-air-new-zealand/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:18:01 +0000 jack http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/?p=264 This animation was put together by a couple of the guys in my team here at Air New Zealand.

Happy Holidays everyone…


Air New Zealand Saves Christmas — cartoon from Photon Studios on Vimeo.

BTW see if you can find the easter egg @ http://www.happyholidaysfromairnz.com there may be something in it for you :)

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Click here to view the embedded video.

And techno styles

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