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• WinDirStat-next / HN
  • QDirStat - KDirStat without any KDE
• ariccio/altWinDirStat - An unofficial modification of WinDirStat. Tremendous performance improvements.

It uses treemap to represents each file as a colored rectangle, the area of which is proportional to the file’s size.

• Cushion Treemaps: Visualization of Hierarchical Information

Project

Have same treemap vizualisation ported to linux

CodeMap

• treemap code is in windirstat/Controls/treemap.cpp CTreemapPreview::OnPaint()
  • CTreemap::DrawTreemapDoubleBuffered() - CTreemap::DrawTreemap()
    • CTreemap::RecurseDrawGraph()
    • RenderLeaf()
      • RenderRectangle()
      • DrawCushion()
    • CTreemap::DrawChildren()

see also

• Treemaps are awesome
• Git Heat Map – a tool for visualising git repo activity for each file
• TreeSheets - A “hierarchical spreadsheet” that is a great replacement for spreadsheets