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Will ordinal scales ever be zoomable?

• mbostock 11y ago
  Ordinal scales don’t have a continuous input domain, so you can’t plug them into the zoom behavior like a linear scale. You could have the zoom behavior transform the scale’s output range instead (or equivalently, use the zoom behavior to apply a transform to the SVG). Can you elaborate on when you would want to do this? It might make a good example.
  • infinite8s 11y ago
    Not the original questioner, but you can imagine trying to implement something like a TableLens in D3 (https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/courses/cpsc533c-04-fall/readings/tablelens.pdf https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/courses/cpsc533c-04-fall/readings...), and zooming in the ordinal row axis just acts as a window onto a subset of the data.