I’ve just released a new version of Logstalgia, my website access log visualization that looks a bit like Pong if only it had been created by Jeff Minter. Logstalgia is also referred to as ApachePong (referring to both the Apache Web Server and Pong) which is a much better name, but also covered by multiple trademarks.
Here’s a new video to go with it.
The song is ‘Depart’ by Tekno Eddy, which I found on ccmixter.org, which is a good place to find Creative Commons music that people actually want you to use (with attribution) in your Youtube videos.
The new version of Logstalgia adds a bunch of features back-ported from Gource, like being able to seek to a point in the log file, and the much needed PPM output support for making videos that was probably the biggest feature missing originally.
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Hi Andrew, can you tell me what parameters you’ve used for the glow (all three) that makes it really ‘glowy’ and nice 🙂
Hi. I used about 3 different lots of settings in the video (I made a bunch of recordings of the same log file with different settings), increasing the glow duration (% of screen they last before fading out) and the multiplier (scale of bloom particles).
I think –glow-multiplier 3.0 –glow-duration 0.75 will give you something like the middle part of the video.
My nice and glowy settings are now:
–glow-multiplier 3 –glow-intensity 0.7 –glow-duration 0.3
but that is for an environment with many requests a second.
I know this software hasn’t been updated in a while, but paddle-position setting does only work with the default paddle mode 🙂
For extra niceness, I summarize a bunch of servers into one logstream, and “abuse” the vhost-field of the logline to give each server its own paddle.