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Color Interpolation test
#svgContainer {
width:2000px;
height:3000px;
background-color:white;
}
p, h2 {
font-family:'Oxygen';
max-width: 2000px;
}
.verticalLine {
border-top:thin solid #aaa;
line-height: 140%;
}
var w = 1000;
var h = 500;
var num = 20;
var radius = w / num / 6;
var ylevel = 30;
var color = 'darkred'
// change colors in colorlist to interpolate between different colors!
var colorlist = [color, 'blue'];
var functionlist = [d3.interpolateRgb, d3.interpolateHsl, d3.interpolateHcl];
//Create SVG elements
var createsvg = function (w, h) {
svg = d3.select("#forSVG")
.append("svg")
.attr("width", w)
.attr("height", h);
}
// create array of color interpolating functions
var s = [];
for (var i = 0; i < functionlist.length; i++) {
s.push(d3.scale.linear()
.domain([0, num])
.interpolate(functionlist[i])
.range([colorlist[0], colorlist[1]]));
}
var expanddata = function (arrayoffunc, num, startingX, startingY, radius, ySep) {
var data = [];
for (var i = 0; i < arrayoffunc.length; i++) {
var ylevel = startingY + i * ySep;
for (var j = 0; j < num; j++) {
data.push([arrayoffunc[i](j), startingX + j * 2 * radius, ylevel]);
}
}
return data;
}
// draw the circles!
createsvg()
svg.selectAll('x')
.data(expanddata(s, num, radius, ylevel, radius, 4 * radius))
.enter()
.append("circle")
.attr("cx", function (d) {
return d[1]
})
.attr("cy", function (d) {
return d[2]
})
.attr("r", radius)
.attr("opacity", 1)
.attr("fill", function (d) {
return d[0]
});
// add html
var overview = document.getElementById('overview');
overview.innerHTML = '<p>Interpolation between ' + colorlist[0] +
' and ' + colorlist[1] +
' using RGB, HSL, or HCL</p>';
<!-- note: this code is one of the first things I wrote in D3... which I just moved from jsfiddle to github, so there may be weirdness is how things are implemented -->
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Color Interpolation</title>
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oxygen:300normal,400normal,700normal' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="colorInterpolation.css">
<body>
<h2>Interpolating Between Colors</h2>
<p id="overview"></p>
<div id="forSVG"></div>
<p>To try different colors, use the jsfiddle example <a href="https://fiddle.jshell.net/HvTcN/6/">here</a>.</p>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="colorInterpolation.js"></script>
</body>
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