URL:
<http://gna.org/task/?4464>
Summary: Submission of Packet Garden
Project: Gna! Administration
Submitted by: julian
Submitted on: Friday 01/05/2007 at 03:40
Status: None
Approval Status: None
Should Start On: Friday 01/05/2007 at 00:00
Should be Finished on: Monday 01/15/2007 at 00:00
Category: Project Approval
Priority: 5 - Normal
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:
A new project has been registered at Gna!
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.
= Registration Administration =
While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration <https://gna.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=2011> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):
* Group Administration
<https://gna.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=2011>
= Registration Details =
* Name: *Packet Garden*
* System Name: *packetgarden*
* Type: Programs
* License: GNU General Public License V2 or later
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==== Description: ====
Background:
Packet Garden is an experimental 3D network visualisation application. It has
been commissioned by British arts organisation Arnolfini with the intention of
bringing greater public awareness to how people use the internet. It will be
distributed widely via the internet and on CDROM.
Project Description:
Packet Garden captures information about how you accesses the internet and
uses this stored information to grow a private garden world you can later
explore.
To do this, Packet Garden takes note of all the servers you visit, their
geographical location alongwith the kinds of data you access. Uploads make
hills and downloads valleys, their location determined by numbers taken from
internet address itself. The size of each hill or valley is based on how much
data is sent or received. Plants are also grown for each protocol-type
detected by the software; if you visit a website, an 'HTTP plant' is grown.
If you share some files via eMule, a 'Peer to Peer plant' is grown, and so
on.
None of this information is made public or shared in any way, instead it's
used to grow a private landscape, a kind of 'walk-in graph' uniquely shaped
by the way you use the internet. With each day of network activity a new
world can be generated, each of which are stored as tiny files for you to
browse, compare and visit as time goes by.You can think of packet gardens as
pages from a network diary.
Project URL:
http://www.selectparks.net/~julian/pg/
Source code and binary releases:
http://www.selectparks.net/~julian/pg/dists/
Developer weblog:
http://www.selectparks.net/~julian
==== Other Software Required: ====
Dependencies:
Packet Garden is written entirely using open-source components, most notably
the tcpdump distribution of LibPcap, Python and Soya3D. Here is the full list
of dependencies.
* Python
* Python GeoIP
* Soya3D
* LibPcap
* pypcap
* dpkt
* gksu
* Python Imaging Library
* Simple Direct Media Layer
* Psyco
* OpenAL
The project has been developed on a GNU/Linux system, and is in the midst of
being ported to Win32 and OS X. Packet Garden is being released under the
GPLv2 License.
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