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Visualizing GitHub commit history in a 3-D virtual space

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Data Art / 3-d, GitHub, Ren Yuan, sonification

Ren Yuan visualized the GitHub commit history for the PyTorch library. The virtual rendering shows commits flying towards a repository with events sonified over time.

I wish this was a physical installation or could be experienced in VR. That would be fun.

Find Yuan’s other experiments with visualization and sonification on his site or his more frequently updated X feed. They will get the ol’ imagination going.

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