Insigil is designed to turn static or streaming data into an animated circular visualization. While inteded to be a useful utility - sometimes a quick histogram is just what I need! - Insigil is designed to be visually pleasing and, yes, a bit geeky.
Currently, Insigil can draw historgrams, sets of gauges, and text taken from stdin or text files. I have been using bash's process substitution to generate data streams.
Show a set of numbers as a sort of round bar chart:
echo "1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 4 3 4 5 6 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 3 4 5 6 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"| tr -s ' ' \\n > numbers
insigil -hr numbers
Show a set of numbers as a histogram:
echo "1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 4 3 4 5 6 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 3 4 5 6 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"| tr -s ' ' \\n > numbers
insigil -hr numbers
Display the system's load average for the last 1, 5, and 15 mintues as three gauges:
insigil -gr <( while true; do cut -f 1-3 -d '' /proc/loadavg | tr -d . ; sleep 1; done )
Just show some static text:
insigil -tr <( echo "...--->>>|Insigil|<<<---...")
The flags can be combined, and each new one creates a new ring inside the previous one.
insigil -tr <( echo "...--->>>|Insigil|<<<---...")
Create a $HOME/.insigil.colors.toml file with contents such as this:
[palette]
background = [0.85, 0.90, 0.99, 1.0]
primary = [0.14, 0.75, 0.92, 1.0]
secondary = [0.99, 0.99, 0.99, 1.0]
highlight = [0.79, 0.41, 0.83, 1.0]
The format is R, G, B, Alpha scaled from 0.0 to 1.0.
- 0.1.1 - Added a real histogram. Updated to latest Piston libs.
- 0.1.0 - Initial version
First, install Rust
Then roughly:
git clone https://github.com/robbieh/insigil
cd insigil
cargo build --release
./target/release/insigil
If you want the SDL2 or GLFW backend, try one of these instead. Though for me this displays at the wrong scale on a high def display. YMMV.
cargo build --release --no-default-features --features include_sdl2
cargo build --release --no-default-features --features include_glfw
Plenty.