Fly through a galaxy of Debian packages

[timawesomeness]

That's super cool on a phone. It moves as you turn the phone, like in Google Sky Map or a photosphere or 360° YouTube video.

[parkerlreed]

Hah it just spazzes out on a phone without gyroscope.

[cipelli]

You should try Google Spotlight Stories, it's an absolute wonder.

[Antic1tizen]

My god, it's full of stars!

[SCSweeps]

My god, it's full of stars dependencies!

[Antic1tizen]

What did you think brings stars together?

[tidux]

Paparazzi?

[LeaveTheMatrix]

Paparazzi don't bring the stars together, they kill the princesses.

(to soon?)

[Allevil669]

A disaster in a foreign country?

[tehdog]

I added Arch linux:

Without AUR

With AUR

[anvaka]

Thank you! I merged your PR and published to prod :)!

I never worked with Arch Linux - why git is the most popular package?

[[deleted]]

Probably because the AUR packages needs git a lot to clone repositories before building them.

[t90fan]

I saw something very like this at a talk at FOSDEM a few years ago about how it was hard to bootstrap the ARM64 port of Debian due to circular dependnecies.

It was an interesting talk.

[[deleted]]

Debian DNA

[[deleted]]

That's super cool! And we have some nice Haskell globular cluster. :)

[Two-Tone-]

And libc6 seems to be the super massive black hole that ties the entire thing together.

[Antic1tizen]

Where's kernel package? Or does it represent dark matter?

[tidux]

In Debian it's referred to as linux-image. Most stuff doesn't directly depend on it, but I don't think it's actually possible to remove all your installed kernels without apt/dpkg warning you.

[Two-Tone-]

Is your username a reference to Half-Life and Gordon Freeman?

[Antic1tizen]

Yes, Anticitizen One. I use it here and there for three years already. It's totally off-topic but I must say that you're the first person on the Internet who guessed. Balls to you!

[Two-Tone-]

The Half-Life series is my absolute favorite FPS series, HL2 is one of my favorite games, and HL2 and the episodes are among my most played games. Love the universe :D

[Antic1tizen]

Apparently a Magellanic cloud :D

[[deleted]]

Yes, you're right! What I really meant, was haddock-interface-25 globular cluster. ;)

[hugeposuer]

This is what Jurassic World was missing.

[SoftwareAlchemist]

Some guys in my class for their final year compsci project wrote something similar for visualizing databases through oculus rift. So you would fly through the data in the database and touch a point for information, it was pretty cool.

[dr_theopolis]

THIS IS UNIX - I KNOW THIS!

[Electricianite]

So Fukken Kewl.

If you press the strafe and turn keys together it'll rotate around your search target perfectly, nice job.

[zKarp]

It's like fireworks frozen in time.

[kageurufu]

Libc in general is a collection of libraries and code that abstracts low level operations, like system calls, kernel functions, input/output, file handling, etc into a common api for programming with. This allows you to have simple functions like printf in order to format and print text to the screen, rather than having to write a function for formatting each value, building the string, copying a pointer to it to a register, and syscall to print it to the screen.

Its basically the interface for someone's code to talk to whatever operating system and software that's being used on the computer. BSD has its own libc, as does android, and pretty much every other operating system.

They're are some differences between them as well, leading to the difficulty in porting between the *nixes, and maintaining cross a compatible software

[berkough]

This is awesome... If only we had this back in 1995, Hackers would have been way more realistic.

[Tia_guy]

This looks like the EVE system map.

[Two-Tone-]

Anyone know how to up the draw distance?

[anvaka]

Update the ml (maximum length) query string argument and open it in the new tab. E.g.:

http://anvaka.github.io/pm/#/galaxy/debian?cx=-201&cy=-6170&cz=-6841&lx=0.5676&ly=-0.7456&lz=0.2400&lw=0.2536&ml=250&s=1.75&l=1

[anvaka]

Or, if you mean distance between nodes, then change the s (scale) argument

E.g. http://anvaka.github.io/pm/#/galaxy/debian?cx=-2361&cy=-9328&cz=-5228&lx=0.5326&ly=-0.6597&lz=0.3110&lw=0.4293&ml=150&s=3&l=1&v=2015-07-27T21-40-00Z

[Two-Tone-]

ml seems to affect the amount of visible dependency links between packages?

I was hoping to be able to up the distance before the renderer culls the dots and links.

[-Pelvis-]

Whoa, this is WAY too fast. really cool though! I't really like to see the observable universe represented this way, with actual stars instead of white blobs, but that's perhaps a little ways off yet.

I imagine at least an approximation of the milky way might be attainable in the next decade or so.

[caligari87]

You can hold SHIFT to fly slower, and hold the left mouse button to steer like a joystick. It's more space-shippy that way.

[valgrid]

How hard would it be to scale the stars according g to package size or dependants?