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D3 v5 Zoomable Sunburst

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Last edited Apr 27, 2019
Created on Apr 27, 2019

This visualization renders the Flare software package hierarchy as a zoomable sunburst, where each arc segment represents a node and its size encodes the node’s value. Users can click arcs or the central circle to drill down or back up through the hierarchy, with animated transitions handled by `d3.transition` and `transition.attrTween`. The code uses D3 v5’s `d3.hierarchy`, `d3.partition`, and `d3.arc` to compute and draw the layout in SVG, while `d3.scaleOrdinal` with `d3.interpolateRainbow` assigns colors to top-level branches. The data is loaded asynchronously from the `@observablehq/flare` module via the Observable standard library.

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Mike Bostock's D3 Zoomable Sunburst example

<br></br> Ported from this Observable notebook for this forum thread. Many thanks to Bryan Gingechen who answered my question about the necessary steps to get from an (Observable) JavaScript notebook to a vanilla JavaScript index.html. He presented his solution on blockbuilder.org

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