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Solar System of Forks

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Last edited Jan 24, 2024

Created on Jan 23, 2024

The visualization animates a stylized solar system constructed from kitchen utensils, with two concentric circles representing plates as the central “sun” and orbiting forks of varying sizes as “planets.” It shows relative scale through the sizes of the circular and rectangular shapes, though distances are not depicted to scale. The animation, built with D3.js, uses `transition` to grow the elements from zero to their full dimensions, then rotates the fork shapes around the center using an `interval` loop that updates their positions via trigonometric calculations. Data on planetary sizes comes from Wikipedia’s list of gravitationally rounded objects.

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A visualization of the solar system. Relative sizes to scale, distances not to scale.

Data from Wikipedia: List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System.

Challenge

Option A: Use this template to visualize the relative size of various numbers.
Option B: Add SVG Gradients to make the planets look more planet-like

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