[Curitiba-pm] Map of CPAN

[Felipe Leprevost]

On 12/15/2011 09:40 PM, Stanislaw Pusep wrote:
> Esplêndido!!!
> A propósito, como se chama esse tipo de representação?!
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> ABS()
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> 2011/12/15 Felipe Leprevost <leprevostfv at gmail.com
> <mailto:leprevostfv at gmail.com>>
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>     Gostaria de compartilhar com todos, achei bastante interessante:
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>     CPAN já está tão grande que precisa de um mapa :)
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>     Map of CPAN: http://mapofcpan.org/
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>     abraços
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>     --
>     Felipe da Veiga Leprevost
>     Computational Biology Laboratory
>     Carlos Chagas Institute - ICC/FIOCRUZ
>     Curitiba - PR - Brasil
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Olha não encontrei um nome específico mas encontrei uma descrição dos 
autores sobre o mapa (ver abaixo), e pelo o que eles escrevem parece que 
é uma ferramenta para representar mapas políticos, tipo cidades, países 
e continentes.

" The map was created by taking the names of all the distributions of 
Perl modules on CPAN and arranging them in alphabetical order.  This has 
the effect of grouping together distributions that share the same 
top-level namespace.  The long list of names (a single dimension) was 
then mapped onto a two dimensional plane using the Hilbert curve 
algorithm. The important property of the algorithm is that a sequence of 
consecutive items from the list will end up physically close to each 
other on the plane. Areas on the map are then assigned colours similar 
to the way colours are used on political maps to distinguish the borders 
of adjacent countries.
To reduce the visual clutter, only the larger namespaces are coloured. 
Namespaces containing 30 or more distributions are said to have reached 
critical mass and are assigned a colour which differs from the colours 
of all the immediate neighbours. Namespaces with fewer modules are 
submerged below the light blue primordial soup.  Over time as new 
modules are uploaded, new areas will rise; continental drift will move 
and reshape the existing areas; and existing areas will change colour. "

abraço
-- 
Felipe da Veiga Leprevost
Computational Biology Laboratory
Carlos Chagas Institute - ICC/FIOCRUZ
Curitiba - PR - Brasil