distance-limited Voronoi Interaction III

This block is based on Step 3 - Voronoi Scatterplot - Tooltip attached to circle from @NadiehBremer

The Voronoi technics (used to improve interactive experience) is something I like. But I’m quite confused when the mouse is far away from points/subjectsOfMatter. In the original example, this situation arises in the viz’s top-left and bottom-right corners.

This block attempts to overcome this issue by:

• still using the Voronoi partition to identifiy the closest point/subjectOfMmatter when they are close to each others
• and, checking if the distance from the point to the mouse is close enought (max distance checking)

For the sake of illustration, interactive areas appear in (very) light blue. Interactive zones would not be rendered in the final viz.

The implementation in this block uses a plugin I made (see d3-distanceLimitedVoronoi Github project) that computes the adequate interactive area around each point. The adequate path is: voronoï-cell INTERSECT max-distance-from-point. Others ways could be:

• clip each Voronoï cell with a circle shape (cf. this block)
• use JS to determine if the pointer is close enought to display the tooltip (cf. this block)

This third implementation of distance-limited voronoi cell is simpler than the 2 others because:

• compared to the clipPath way, it doesn’t requires extra clipPathes (dedicated definition, and bindings to each cell)
• compared to the JS-based way, mouse interaction is easier (only mouseenter and mouseout, no mousemoved), and less intensive (no mousemove); nevertheless, it comes with the cost of computing the adequate path of each cell.

Acknowledgments to:

• D3.js (v3)
• blockbuilder.org
• Step 3 - Voronoi Scatterplot - Tooltip attached to circle