Highlighting some preset paths and other questions.

[iboy]

Hi, thank you for the app and I've been able quickly to get to grips with it. I'm quite new to D3 so please let me know if what I ask is core to it and I should look elsewhere.
I have "a few" questions. Can your app:

1. Let me at the ID of the nodes so I can highlight some predefined paths? (with my own buttons in the UI)
2. Is zooming on selected/highlighted nodes doable?
3. Is a zoom control possible, in a more general way for the whole canvas?
4. Being unfamiliar with the brewer colours, what is the easiest way to override / customise the colours per type / group?
5. Can I lock the 'central' node?
6. I've followed the thread on customising the depth of 'highlights' through the tree. This would be very useful.

URL: http://daisyrust.com/phd/taxonomy/graph.php
Thanks again for your work!

Kind regards, Ian

[nylen]

You can do whatever you want if you can figure out how to trick the browser and d3 into it.

I think the first step is to set some constraints using config.json to help the structure of the data emerge. When I zoom out to about 50% in Chrome this looks better:

• http://nylen.tv/d3-process-map/graph.php?dataset=daisyrust-01
• http://nylen.tv/d3-process-map/data/daisyrust-01/config.json

Stick the code in a git repo and play around with it. Implementing the pseudocode in #3 would be a good start. For this dataset you might want to highlight all levels of parents and children at once.

[iboy]

Dear James,

Thank you for the reply and the tips (the sample config particularly). I've played further and will be able to get a decent layout. I'm still inputting the data set (from an omnigraffle) and will work out the the highlighting code and will share should I get it done.

Kind regards, Ian

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Ian Grant
Senior Lecturer Digital Art and Media
Ealing School of Art, Design and Media
University of West London

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On 11 Jul 2014, at 07:38, James Nylen [email protected] wrote:

You can do whatever you want if you can figure out how to trick the browser and d3 into it.

I think the first step is to set some constraints using config.json to help the structure of the data emerge. When I zoom out to about 50% in Chrome this looks better:

http://nylen.tv/d3-process-map/graph.php?dataset=daisyrust-01
http://nylen.tv/d3-process-map/data/daisyrust-01/config.json
Stick the code in a git repo and play around with it. Implementing the pseudocode in #3 would be a good start. For this dataset you might want to highlight all levels of parents and children at once.

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[nylen]

No problem. I'm closing this issue. Feel free to open a new one if you have more questions.