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Other solutions exist, such as the ones shown below, for 3 categories green/red/purple. These solutions share a common characteristic: The more important a proportion, the larger the area of the corresponding color.","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":166,"value":"$34","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":695,"value":"viewof class0 = Inputs.range([0, 100], {\n label: \"Green (%)\",\n step: 1,\n value: 45\n})","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":706,"value":"viewof class1 = Inputs.range([0, 100 - class0], {\n label: \"Red (%)\",\n step: 1,\n value: 35\n})","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":281,"value":"Purple (%), the rest:","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":263,"value":"class2 = 100 - class0 - class1","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":940,"value":"Such symbols can be used for various visualisations such as [this map on causes of death in Europe](https://observablehq.com/@joewdavies/mapping-with-pie-charts-most-common-causes-of-death-in-europ) or [this one on French population by age](https://eurostat.github.io/gridviz/test_canvas/test/F2015_ind_by_age.html).","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":55,"value":"We focus here on another type of symbol for showing proportions: **striped circle**. It shows the proportions as stripes on a circle, as shown on the example below:","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":102,"value":"html`\n\n`","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":996,"value":"Striped circles have some good advantages compared to pie charts, such as the possiblility to order the categories (from left to right for example) or to use the stripe orientation to show another variable.\n","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":725,"value":"viewof orientation1 = Inputs.range([-180, 180], {\n label: \"Orientation\",\n step: 1,\n value: 0\n})","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":722,"value":"Like the previous solutions, striped circle need to preserve the color proportions, so that the quantity of each color map the corresponding proportion. A **naive** solution is to assign each stripe with a width directly proportional to the proportion of the corresponding category. This simple solution is unfortunatelly **not correct**, since the stripes close to the circle outline will appear less important than the ones closer to the center. The stripe width is not a linear function of the corresponding percentage value. This (little) challenge is addressed in the next sections below.\n\n","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":61,"value":"# Circular segment area\n\nTo assign the correct width to each stripe, we need to consider [the area of the circular segment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_segment) as represented in green:","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":66,"value":"

","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"html","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":72,"value":"This area can be expressed as a function of the stripe width **h** as:","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":765,"value":"A = R^2/2 * (\\theta - sin(\\theta))","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"tex","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":770,"value":"with `\\theta` as:","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":774,"value":"cos(\\theta/2) = 1-h/R","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"tex","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":76,"value":"**For our case, we need to express *h* as function of the area *A* **.\n\nNote this could be compared with a more concrete real world problem: Imagine you have a long cylindrical tank lying horizontaly on the ground, to be pourred with a known quantity of water (or wine). 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break1, 100 - break2];\n makePattern(\n svg,\n \"pattXXX\",\n 2 * radius,\n data_,\n colors,\n orientation2,\n [padding + radius, padding + radius],\n withCorrection\n );\n\n svg\n .append(\"circle\")\n .attr(\"cx\", padding + radius)\n .attr(\"cy\", height * 0.5)\n .attr(\"r\", radius)\n .attr(\"fill\", \"url(#pattXXX)\")\n .attr(\"stroke\", \"#000a\");\n\n svg\n .append(\"text\")\n .attr(\"x\", 3 * padding + 2 * radius)\n .attr(\"y\", padding + radius)\n .text(\n \"Green \" +\n data_[0] +\n \"% | Red \" +\n data_[1] +\n \"% | Purple \" +\n data_[2] +\n \"%\"\n );\n\n return svg.node();\n}","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":476,"value":"$35","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":1220,"value":"# Use it !\n\nFor some examples of visualisations using striped circles, see [this collection](https://observablehq.com/collection/@jgaffuri/striped-circles).\n\nSee also the dedicated [StripedCircle library](https://github.com/jgaffuri/StripedCircle/) for faster reuse.","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":300,"value":"# Annex","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":357,"value":"colors = [\"#66c2a5\", \"#fc8d62\", \"#8da0cb\"]","pinned":true,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":402,"value":"data = [class0, class1, class2]","pinned":true,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":305,"value":"## Pie chart","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":216,"value":"makePieChart = function () {\n const g = d3.select(\"#pc\");\n g.attr(\"transform\", \"translate(\" + 60 + \",\" + 60 + \")\");\n g.selectAll(\"*\").remove();\n const pie = d3.pie();\n pie.sort(undefined);\n const arc = d3.arc().innerRadius(0).outerRadius(50);\n const arcs = g\n .selectAll(\"arc\")\n .data(pie(data))\n .enter()\n .append(\"g\")\n .attr(\"class\", \"arc\");\n arcs\n .append(\"path\")\n .attr(\"fill\", function (d, i) {\n return colors[i];\n })\n .attr(\"stroke\", \"#333\")\n .attr(\"d\", arc);\n}","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":286,"value":"makePieChart()","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":315,"value":"## Radar chart","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":319,"value":"makeRadarChart = function () {\n const g = d3.select(\"#radar\");\n g.attr(\"transform\", \"translate(\" + 60 + \",\" + 60 + \")\");\n g.selectAll(\"*\").remove();\n const a = (2 * Math.PI) / 3;\n\n var arcs = g\n .selectAll(\"arc\")\n .data(data)\n .enter()\n .append(\"g\")\n .attr(\"class\", \"arc\");\n arcs\n .append(\"path\")\n .attr(\"fill\", function (d, i) {\n return colors[i];\n })\n .attr(\"stroke\", \"#333\")\n .attr(\"d\", function (d, i) {\n return d3\n .arc()\n .innerRadius(0)\n .outerRadius(5 * Math.sqrt(d))\n .startAngle(i * a)\n .endAngle((i + 1) * a)();\n });\n}","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":321,"value":"makeRadarChart()","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":487,"value":"## Other","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":895,"value":"For the random striped circles","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":493,"value":"nb = 15","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":495,"value":"radius = Array.from({ length: nb }, () => 10 + 35 * Math.random())","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":491,"value":"breakdowns = Array.from({ length: nb }, () => {\n const sh1 = 10 + 25 * Math.random(),\n sh2 = 20 + 40 * Math.random(),\n sh3 = 100 - 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