#gitkin – a pointless 3D visualiser for your GitHub repo stats
That's all there is to it, really. You punch in a GitHub repo URL and get a snazzy visual consisting of towers for each contributor to the repo; with building blocks sized according to that week's activity.
##Why?
Bars and contributor graphs are cool, but 3D is cooler, ain't it?
##gitkin? What kind of a name is that?
I had a hard time coming up with the name. I thought of towers since that's what gitkin gives you, and since I'm currently in London, UK, my eyes fell quite naturally on 30 St Mary Axe – also known as The Gherkin.
Boom – gitkin.
(You could also derive it from Anakin Gitwalker (Skywalker? Somethingwalker?) if you'd like.)
##Okay. What powers this "whacky hack"?
The awesome three.js and the GitHub API, glued together by an unholy mix of HTML, CSS, and jQuery (yeah…).