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Polygon Clipping II
license: gpl-3.0
height: 600

This example demonstrates how to use d3.geoIdentity and d3.geoProject to clip a polygon to an extent. While this example clips the polygon in the browser, this would more commonly be done on the command-line using geoproject. The advantage of this approach over clipping while rendering is that you can precompute the clipped polygon for faster rendering.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<svg width="960" height="600"></svg>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3-geo-projection.v1.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/topojson.v2.min.js"></script>
<script>
var svg = d3.select("svg");
svg.append("rect")
.attr("fill", "blue")
.attr("x", 100)
.attr("y", 100)
.attr("width", 760)
.attr("height", 400);
d3.json("https://d3js.org/us-10m.v1.json", function(error, us) {
if (error) throw error;
var path = d3.geoPath(),
clip = d3.geoIdentity().clipExtent([[100, 100], [860, 500]]),
nation = topojson.feature(us, us.objects.nation),
nationClipped = d3.geoProject(nation, clip);
svg.append("path")
.attr("fill", "red")
.attr("d", path(nation));
svg.append("path")
.attr("fill", "black")
.attr("stroke", "white")
.attr("d", path(nationClipped));
});
</script>
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