Zoomable icicle

This variant of an icicle diagram shows only three layers of the hierarchy at a time. Click a node to zoom in, or the left column to zoom out. Compare to a sunburst.

// Specify the chart’s dimensions.
const width = 928;
const height = 1200;

// Create the color scale.
const color = d3.scaleOrdinal(d3.quantize(d3.interpolateRainbow, data.children.length + 1));

// Compute the layout.
const hierarchy = d3.hierarchy(data)
    .sum((d) => d.value)
    .sort((a, b) => b.height - a.height || b.value - a.value);
const root = d3.partition()
    .size([height, (hierarchy.height + 1) * width / 3])
  (hierarchy);

// Create the SVG container.
const svg = d3.create("svg")
    .attr("viewBox", [0, 0, width, height])
    .attr("width", width)
    .attr("height", height)
    .attr("style", "max-width: 100%; height: auto; font: 10px sans-serif;");

// Append cells.
const cell = svg
  .selectAll("g")
  .data(root.descendants())
  .join("g")
    .attr("transform", (d) => `translate(${d.y0},${d.x0})`);

const rect = cell.append("rect")
    .attr("width", (d) => d.y1 - d.y0 - 1)
    .attr("height", (d) => rectHeight(d))
    .attr("fill-opacity", 0.6)
    .attr("fill", (d) => {
      if (!d.depth) return "#ccc";
      while (d.depth > 1) d = d.parent;
      return color(d.data.name);
    })
    .style("cursor", "pointer")
    .on("click", clicked);

const text = cell.append("text")
    .style("user-select", "none")
    .attr("pointer-events", "none")
    .attr("x", 4)
    .attr("y", 13)
    .attr("fill-opacity", (d) => +labelVisible(d));

text.append("tspan")
    .text((d) => d.data.name);

const format = d3.format(",d");
const tspan = text.append("tspan")
    .attr("fill-opacity", (d) => labelVisible(d) * 0.7)
    .text((d) => ` ${format(d.value)}`);

cell.append("title")
    .text((d) => `${d.ancestors().map((d) => d.data.name).reverse().join("/")}\n${format(d.value)}`);

display(svg.node());

// On click, change the focus and transitions it into view.
let focus = root;
function clicked(event, p) {
  focus = focus === p ? p = p.parent : p;

  root.each((d) => d.target = {
    x0: (d.x0 - p.x0) / (p.x1 - p.x0) * height,
    x1: (d.x1 - p.x0) / (p.x1 - p.x0) * height,
    y0: d.y0 - p.y0,
    y1: d.y1 - p.y0
  });

  const t = cell.transition().duration(750)
      .attr("transform", (d) => `translate(${d.target.y0},${d.target.x0})`);

  rect.transition(t).attr("height", (d) => rectHeight(d.target));
  text.transition(t).attr("fill-opacity", (d) => +labelVisible(d.target));
  tspan.transition(t).attr("fill-opacity", (d) => labelVisible(d.target) * 0.7);
}

function rectHeight(d) {
  return d.x1 - d.x0 - Math.min(1, (d.x1 - d.x0) / 2);
}

function labelVisible(d) {
  return d.y1 <= width && d.y0 >= 0 && d.x1 - d.x0 > 16;
}
const data = FileAttachment("data/flare.json").json().then(display);
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