Pcoords starts where Picviz v0.6 stopped (see below for more information)
- Copyright 2008-2009 Sebastien Tricaud
Pcoords is a parallel coordinates plotter, written to help people finding a needle in a haystack when dealing with numerous events on their system and struggling to maintain an acceptable level of security.
It is a computer security visualization program, written in C with high performances in mind. Python bindings are available, and are used by the Pcoords Frontend that you can use to dig into your graph.
Parallel coordinates, the core visualization technique used by Picviz allows to represent graphs in N dimensions to see correlations among variables, making it a useful data mining software when dealing with large sets of logs.
- PGDL = Pcoords Graph Description Language
- PGDT = Pcoords Graph Description Template (used for real-time)
- Cmake
- libpcre
- libevent
- Cairo
- Python library (for bindings and the frontend)
- Python QT4 for the frontend
- Plplot
$ make
# make install$ cd src/libpcoords/bindings/python
# python ./setup.py installconsole binary:
pcv -Tsvg file.pgdl > file.svgPlease read the man page pcv(1)
Picviz is one of the first free software project I ever worked on. I used it in one of my engineer school internships. After that, I stopped using it for a while.
Lately, I've been thinking about visualizing network logs for one of my clients. I naturally thought about Picviz, but when I tried to find a project page, all I found was: http://www.wallinfire.net/pcoords, which doesn't exist anymore, since Picviz became Picviz Labs, and the project became a product. The code is still opensource though, but it is not a free software project anymore.
This is why I'm creating this repository, so that anyone wanting to contribute to this awesome tool can do it, as easy as a pull request.
Since Picviz is now a registered name, this project will be named Pcoords.
This project is bootstrapped with the version 0.6 of Picviz, as available from http://www.pcoords.com/sections/community/pcoords-latest.tar.bz2 (which is a little more than the version 0.6 of Picviz that has been packaged in Fedora 17).