Node Gravity is an attempt to visualize website stats using principles of physics.

Each article on this page falls into a category like downloads, news, projects etc. nodeGravity uses the number of visits to that particular category and the number of nodes in that category to render and visualize web stats according to Planck’s black body radiation and Newton’s Law of Universal gravitation.

Here is an example

Simple interpretation of the stats are this

• Each category forms a star.
• The size(mass) of the star is based on the number of nodes in that category
• The color of the star tells us how quot;hotquot; the current category is with the visitors.
• Hotter a star, the color will be more towards the blue. It means, that this category is currently getting a lot hits.

The color is calculated using Plank’s black body radiation laws, which says that the hotter a star is, the lesser the wavelength of the emitted light will be.

Newton’s Law of universal gravitation comes in to associate energy to each node, based on its mass and number of visits.