First, there’s bad news on the shiny front. Although I made the SVG renderer capable of producing the gel-like circles, Mozilla’s SVG support currently lacks the features to do it as implemented. (Curse your full-featured-ness, Eye of GNOME!) Hopefully someday soon, it will support the synthetic BackgroundImage filter input (bug). Our show-and-tell for the end [...]
Also tagged contacts, PosterityAs part of a continuing effort to make visophyte’s byproducts look attractive, I implemented a bit more shiny today. Using this aqua sphere effect photoshop tutorial at skdstudio.com as a basis, I have made the simple circle renderer support a ‘pretty’ option. Unfortunately, this took a lot longer than I was hoping. Cairo lacks a [...]
Also tagged ShinyI have hacked up my local posterity bzr branch to process messages to extract contacts (and mailing lists). These contacts result in synthetic tags (to, from, and cc) applied to each message. My changes also include maintaining per-time interval (day, ISO week, month, year, ever) sparse counts for each tag. Visophyte (bzr trunk) has been [...]
Also tagged contacts, Posterity, sparklineThe SVG renderer is in and brought with it much refactoring of the renderers. Cairo still works. But what does this buy us? It buys us a working clickable demo of posterity with the visterity plugin. And a second one too. (You probably need to be using Firefox for it to work. And one with [...]
Also tagged clicky, PosterityExactly. It’s posterity, the exciting new Python mail client (as web server) with some mods (that’s my bzr branch) to support plug-ins slightly more and new chrome ‘decorators’. Into that we have plugged “visterity”, a new visophyte-ish thing. (Found in the visophyte bzr trunk under src/visterity-py) This works with the cairo renderer (so have python-cairo), [...]
Also tagged PosterityVacation found me actually relaxing, but some pretty progress has been had. I forgot to push my 64-bit aggdraw patches to the laptop I brought, so I implemented a cairo renderer. This has resulted in some backend cleanup and refactoring, although there is more to do. This also allows for attractive use of gradients: The [...]
Also tagged ShinyWhat’s new? Mailman archive processing! Bezier segmenting for more accurate arcs (thank you Luc Masonobe)! Pseudo-thread-arcs! (Actual thread arcs as visible on the whoa-awesome-but-why-aren’t-you-released-software ReMail project would seem to more practically squash ridiculously-large arcs and of course leverage the other side.) Node colors are per-author. The middle bottom thread demonstrates the need for a smarter [...]
Also tagged mailmanThis seemed like a better idea in my head: What is it? It’s a variant on the blog visualization below from this post, but using crescent/lune slices instead and with no sustain (aka, if there’s no data point, we don’t draw anything). It self-normalizes so that the maximum value range takes up a full 180 [...]
Also taggedThanks to new and improved time management skills (and a holiday weekend doesn’t hurt), I’ve got a chronicle-recorder visualization going on via chroniquery: Above, we have the visualization run against the ‘fancy’ program seen in the previous chroniquery posts (with one caveat, addressed later). What does it mean? The circular nodes are functions in the [...]
Also tagged chronicle, chroniquery, visichronIn a nod to making useful visualizations, the marker infrastructure has been beefed up. The linear mapper now has reasonable heuristics to use pretty round numbers. And the time mapper has all sorts of time ranges under its belt. While I have thoughtfully left out units, there is now at least a chance of someone [...]
Also tagged