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evenly distribute points on a circle
<html>
<head>jhjh
<title>Points evenly spaced on a circle</title>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<style type="text/css">
.guide{
stroke:#000;
fill:none;
stroke-width:5;
stroke-dasharray:5, 5;
}
.dot{
fill:#fff;
stroke-width:5;
stroke:#000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var size = 300;
var dotSize = 15;
var margin = 40;
function pointsOnCircle(num){
console.log('---')
var angle = (2 * Math.PI)/num;
var points = [];
var i=0;
for(var a = 0; a<(2*Math.PI); a+=angle){
i++;
points.push({
x:Math.cos(a),
y:Math.sin(a),
rotation:a,
label:'point' + i
})
}
return points;
}
function populateConnections( numPoints, connectionChance ){
var c = [];
for (var i= 0; i<numPoints; i++){
c[i] = [];
for ( var j=0; j<numPoints; j++){
if(i==j){
c[i][j] = 0;
}else if(Math.random() <= connectionChance ){
c[i][j] = 1;
}else{
c[i][j] = 0;
}
}
}
//flatten connection
var connections = [];
return c;
}
var circles = [];
for(var i=1;i<10;i++){
circles.push( pointsOnCircle( i ) );
console.log( populateConnections( i ) );
}
var scale = d3.scale.linear()
.range([0, size])
.domain([-1, 1]);
var pointCircle = function(g){
g.append('circle')
.attr({
r:size/2,
cx:size/2,
cy:size/2,
'class':'guide'
});
g.each(function(data,i){
d3.select(this).selectAll('.dot').data(data)
.enter()
.append('circle')
.attr({
'class':'dot',
r:dotSize,
cx:function(d){ return scale(d.x) },
cy:function(d){ return scale(d.y) }
})
});
}
d3.select('body')
.selectAll('svg').data(circles)
.enter()
.append('svg')
.attr('width', size + margin*2)
.attr('height', size + margin*2)
.append('g').attr('transform','translate('+margin+','+margin+')')
.call(pointCircle)
</script>
</html>
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