Animated code coverage

I recently spent a fair amount of time collecting historical code coverage data for Thunderbird; the result is 312 distinct files of raw lcov data covering the first year of Thunderbird in a mercurial repository. I also recently wrote a program that makes a treemap for each day (thanks to the geninfo man page and this treemap library), and then wrote another program to convert that treemap into a static PNG image:

view.setSize(1920,1080);
BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(view.getWidth(),
  view.getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
view.paint(image.getGraphics());
ImageIO.write(image, "png", new File(args[1]));
System.exit(0);

I ran that tool to create images for every single day, and then I made another short script to add dates to each of the images (ImageMagick works really well here):

DATE=$(echo $1 | cut -d'.' -f1)
convert -fill "#aaa" -pointsize 50 label:"$DATE" /tmp/label.png
composite -compose Multiply -gravity southwest /tmp/label.png $1 anno-$1

Now, with 312 images on hand, I decided to make them into a video:

mencoder mf://out/anno-*.png -mf w=1920:h=1080 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=ffv1 -of avi -ofps 3 -o output.avi

I then converted the high-def, lossless AVI into an Ogg file, and produced the following animated video of historical code coverage:

Okay, so no sound yet for the animation—the encoding is painful enough that I don't want to try it out right now. I also didn't filter out any of the days where the tests failed early, so you will occasionally see flashes of red. The data also doesn't have recent stuff (I am holding off until I can figure out how to run mozmill tests and get JS code coverage). Anyways, enjoy!