Legend: Ruby,  JavaScript,  Scala,  Tests,  HTML/CSS/Images, Misc

I saw this last night as I was scanning through my 1000′s of google reader posts and I couldn’t help but share. This video shows the back-end development of twitter via a very cool particle animation. The colored particles swarming about the developers avatar represent a project based on Html/CSS, Ruby or Java. I did a little more searching and found out how it was made.

“This was made with the brain power of Ben Sandofsky, Mobile engineer at Twitter, and a nifty tool called “Code_Swarm”. Code Swarm is an open source experiment in organic software visualization and you can check it out on their site, or at Google’s code HQ.”

I would love to see this type of visualization applied to an extensive design project and displayed in an interactive environment. Imagine if you could rollover each particle and see the actually piece of work or if you could track one particle all the way through fruition…that would be sick. I’ve offically added this to my “things to do” pile. Enjoy and watch in full-screen mode to see all the goods.