brownsys / paper-movies

Poorly written scripts to animate our papers' revision processes

paper-movies

Poorly written scripts to animate our papers' revision processes.

The scripts rely on montage and convert from the ImageMagick suite to layout the PDFs, and ffmpeg to generate the movies. These tools are cross-platform; it should be possible to use these scripts on Linux (untested) as well as Mac OS X (tested).

Each script consists of two loops. The first loop ranges over the paper revisions in the source control repository (which it assumes has been checked- out) and 1) builds the pdf, then 2) creates a png rendering with the specified layout. The second loop ranges over the rendered images to prepare them for ffmpeg.

These scripts were not designed to be generic, drop-in utilities, and are provided for purposes of illustration. Of course, patches to make them easier to use and more generic are welcome. :-)

The papers and their revision videos:

• Andrew D. Ferguson, Jordan Place, and Rodrigo Fonseca. Growth Analysis of a Large ISP. In Proc. ACM Internet Measurement Conference, October 2013.

  • http://www.cs.brown.edu/~adf/work/IMC2013-paper.pdf
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBEEoIM2PBQ&hd=1

• Andrew D. Ferguson, Arjun Guha, Chen Liang, Rodrigo Fonseca, and Shriram Krishnamurthi. Participatory Networking: An API for Applicatoin Control of SDNs. In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, August 2013.

  • http://www.cs.brown.edu/~adf/work/SIGCOMM2013-paper.pdf
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyLSJjntK6I&hd=1

• Andrew D. Ferguson, Arjun Guha, Chen Liang, Rodrigo Fonseca, and Shriram Krishnamurthi. Hierarchical Policies for Software Defined Networks. In Proc. Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networks (Hot-SDN), August 2012.

  • http://www.cs.brown.edu/~adf/work/HotSDN2012-paper.pdf
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIrCSRjqpnA&hd=1

• Andrew D. Ferguson, Arjun Guha, Jordan Place, Rodrigo Fonseca, and Shriram Krishnamurthi. Participatory Networking. In Proc. Workshop on Hot Topics in Management of Internet, Cloud, and Enterprise Networks and Services (Hot-ICE), April 2012.

  • http://www.cs.brown.edu/~adf/work/HotICE2012-paper.pdf
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oVqt5sW6qg&hd=1

• Andrew D. Ferguson, Peter Bodik, Srikanth Kandula, Eric Boutin and Rodrigo Fonseca. Jockey: Guaranteed Job Latency in Data Parallel Clusters. In ACM EuroSys 2012, April 2012.

  • http://www.cs.brown.edu/~adf/work/EuroSys2012-paper.pdf
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sibJhiDRdSw&hd=1

Author and contact info:

Andrew Ferguson
[email protected]
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~adf/