This is a small modification to this gist by syntagmatic. I changed how the path colors are calculated in order to batch similar distances together. I also messed with the color scale and interpolation, and changed the distance calculation from the original. Original Readme follows:
The lock1074 graph from the The University of Florida Sparse Matrix Collection.
1,040 nodes with 25,276 edges. Self-edges were removed from the links array. Links are colored by the distance between nodes.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
</style>
<canvas></canvas>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
<script>
var width = 960,
height = 600;
var linkColor = d3.scaleThreshold()
.domain(d3.range(0,200, 20))
.range(d3.range(0.5,1.0,0.05));
var canvas = d3.select("canvas")
.attr("width", width)
.attr("height", height);
var context = canvas.node().getContext("2d");
var simulation = d3.forceSimulation()
.force("link", d3.forceLink().id(function(d) { return d.id; }).distance(22).strength(0.2))
.force("charge", d3.forceManyBody().strength(-6).distanceMax(380))
.force("center", d3.forceCenter(width / 2, height / 2));
var graph = {};
d3.text("lock1074.mtx", function(error, raw) {
if (error) throw error;
var node_set = d3.set();
var pairs = raw.split("\n")
.slice(14)
.map(function(d) { return d.split(" "); });
pairs.forEach(function(d) {
node_set.add(d[0]);
node_set.add(d[1]);
});
graph.nodes = node_set.values().map(function(d) {
return {
id: d
};
});
graph.links = pairs.map(function(d) {
return {
source: d[0],
target: d[1]
}
})
.filter(function(d) {
return d.source !== d.target;
});
simulation
.nodes(graph.nodes)
simulation.force("link")
.links(graph.links);
d3.range(10).forEach(simulation.tick);
simulation
.on("tick", ticked);
canvas.call(d3.drag()
.container(canvas.node())
.subject(dragsubject)
.on("start", dragstarted)
.on("drag", dragged)
.on("end", dragended));
function ticked() {
context.clearRect(0, 0, width, height);
context.globalAlpha = 0.2;
drawLinks(graph.links);
context.globalAlpha = 1;
context.fillStyle = d3.interpolateViridis(0.15);
graph.nodes.forEach(drawNode);
}
function dragsubject() {
return simulation.find(d3.event.x, d3.event.y);
}
});
function dragstarted() {
if (!d3.event.active) simulation.alphaTarget(0.3).restart();
d3.event.subject.fx = d3.event.subject.x;
d3.event.subject.fy = d3.event.subject.y;
}
function dragged() {
d3.event.subject.fx = d3.event.x;
d3.event.subject.fy = d3.event.y;
}
function dragended() {
if (!d3.event.active) simulation.alphaTarget(0);
d3.event.subject.fx = null;
d3.event.subject.fy = null;
}
function drawLinks(links) {
var linkBatches = d3.map();
linkColor.range().map(function(d, i) { linkBatches.set(d, []);});
links.forEach(function(d) {
var distance = Math.sqrt( Math.pow(d.source.x - d.target.x, 2) + Math.pow(d.source.y - d.target.y, 2));
var batch = linkColor(distance);
var currentList = linkBatches.get(batch);
currentList.push([[d.source.x, d.source.y],[d.target.x, d.target.y]]);
linkBatches.set(batch, currentList);
});
linkBatches.each(function(v, k) {
context.beginPath();
v.forEach(function(points) {
context.moveTo(points[0][0], points[0][1]);
context.lineTo(points[1][0], points[1][1]);
});
context.strokeStyle = d3.interpolatePlasma(parseFloat(k));
context.stroke();
});
}
function drawNode(d) {
// context.fillStyle = d3.interpolateMagma(Math.sqrt(d.vx*d.vx + d.vy*d.vy));
context.fillRect(d.x-0.75, d.y-0.75, 1.5, 1.5);
}
</script>