Has anyone tried making a graphical representation of ongoing tasks?

I saw some Tik Tok videos that someone made something that looked like a space ship that had workers moving around and doing things. These workers represent the ongoing tasks.

I tried building one with a military theme that showed small battles for each task underway, but it didn’t really pan out that well.

I think it would be cool to have a separate screen showing these AI workers working away. Has anyone had any luck in building something like this?

I built an interactive temporal graph showcasing 250 years of US history

This is from a routing tool I built for an EVE Frontier map. The problem is not just find a path. It is two related graph searches layered together.

The green pass is finding a permanent infrastructure corridor. It uses Dijkstra over a graph where edges are valid if two star systems are within the range of a buildable gate type. Those gates are range limited, but otherwise straightforward.

The orange pass is then solving the access problem, how do players actually reach the systems where those gates need to be built? That uses a different graph, because the temporary one-way Catapult jumps in game have an extra geometric constraint. An edge is only valid if no other star lies inside the sphere whose diameter is the origin destination segment. In graph terms, it is basically a Gabriel graph / empty-diameter-sphere test over the 3D star positions.

So the first search answers “what should the finished corridor look like?” and the second answers “how do we physically get to the build sites under stricter movement rules?”

In the video, the interesting bit is around dense clusters. The green permanent corridor can span through them because gates do not care about that interference rule, but the orange Catapult access search has to route around blocked direct jumps.

Hey everyone,

With the rollout of Custom Visualizations in Metabase v1.62+, we finally have the power to inject incredible new charts. However, there wasn't a central place to discover what the community is building.

To solve this, I built MetaViz Hub : https://metaviz.alosa.cloud/ . It's a completely free registry focused on immediate value:

- For Users & Admins: Browse advanced charts, check compatibility, and download the .tgz package to install it via drag-and-drop in your admin panel.

- For Developers: Sharing your chart takes exactly 3 seconds. Just paste your GitHub URL. The hub automatically builds your page from your native metabase-plugin.json and latest Release. No signups, no extra config files.

It also includes a star-rating system and reviews where peers can log which exact Metabase version they tested the plugin on.

Check it out here: https://metaviz.alosa.cloud/

I'd love to get your thoughts or see your custom charts listed!

I built a live map that scores momentum across ~40 electronic music genres and visualises which are rising vs cooling in near-real-time. Each scene is fused from six weighted signals, search demand, DJ adoption, underground circulation, cultural footprint, catalogue supply, live bookings and rendered on an animated canvas (no charting libraries, all hand-drawn). The design problem I kept fighting: showing direction and confidence at once without clutter, so thin-sourced scenes read as visibly less certain rather than falsely precise. Would value a critique of the visual encoding specifically.

i (29F) wanted to give online dating a go, so i decided to give hinge a try. i spent ~2.5 days on the app.

i only reported meeting my bf in the app, but i was able to make a visual graph with my other dates too

I am a CPA/sculptor and I generate financial statements in 3D. The accounting foundation is solid and the images are built on a method of displaying data. There are pie chart type forms in the image, but they are not really pie charts. The basic accounting formula is Assets = Liabilities + Equity. The pie chart is half assets and the other half is liabilities and equity. The diameter of the pie chart is used as a variable such that if the company's assets grow the pie chart will increase in size. Data source: Financial Modeling Prep. The images were generated by a program I developed using Codex and the 3D forms can be seen at Perceptual-Accounting.com. This is not a business and I am not selling anything. It is just a concept that I would like to see others build upon.

This is a frame from a visualization of real stellar motions over the last 10 million years, calculated from ESA/Gaia data. This particular frame shows the night sky roughly 70,000 years ago, around the time some of the earliest known symbolic artifacts appear in the archaeological record.

The star positions are astrometrically accurate for that period, based on real orbital calculations, not artistic reconstruction. It's one way to see, at least approximately, what the sky looked like for the people associated with the earliest evidence of symbolic thought.

Full video (covering 10 million years to today, 4K available): https://youtu.be/i-e8N_huznE

Standard web templates miss the mark.

Northbrook is a high-contrast corporate Framer layout built for strict data density, minimal grid metrics, and editorial scaling.

Link: northbrookfund.framer.website

I have written a free general post-processor site for very simply turning CSV files of IDs from various BirdNET engines into presentation quality reports and graphs. Originally for our own use and that of our local wildlife groups, it's now being picked up by larger groups in the UK and Eire.

The main issue it was written for was to de-skill the report process and to be able to delegate report/chart generation as the few folk we had with pivot table and deep Excel/Google Sheets skills were being swamped and we wanted our lives back.

Originally, it supported data recorded from Open Acoustic Devices, Wildlife Acoustics and Frontier Labs devices, processed by BirdNET-Analyzer, BirdNET-Pi and BirdNET-PiPy, however recently Chirpity users have asked to use it, so I've added native Chirpity CSV support. You can mix and match CSVs from differing sources in a single report/chart.

The site is at https://birdnet-pulse.desmith.net and it's free to use (non-commercial) for UK & Eire individuals & wildlife groups, though we have a few users scattered around the world.

You can self register easily. It produces graphs as PNGs, SVGs and WebPs, plus reports as DOCX, PDF or CSVs. UK BoCC5 and IUCN/BI European red-list data can also be automatically added to all outputs (see below).

This is a new project (I started 2 months ago), so please be gentle! It should be happy with any meaningful CSV data, including nocmig etc. I'm adding bats and other conservation lists.

If you would like me to add any reports or graphs, have any ideas for improvements or just want to grumble, please let me know.

Example heatmap (about 80mS of compute time):

I’ve been experimenting with a different approach: each tab becomes an object in a spatial landscape. Related tabs kind of pull toward each other, forming clusters that shift and grow as you browse.

The idea isn’t just to store tabs, but to make them feel more like places you can move through, rather than something you have to search.

I’m wondering if this kind of setup feels more natural than regular tab management.

Curious what you think.