3 ms·
doing a scatter plot of 10k points in SVG is impractical - ok, so you could argue that you can't really see 10k points on the screen, that's fair, but if a user
by hogu 14y ago
doing a scatter plot of 10k points in SVG is impractical - ok, so you could argue that you can't really see 10k points on the screen, that's fair, but if a user has 10k points, and they want to see them, you either have to figure out how to represent that with fewer points (collapsing a bunch of points into larger marks perhaps) or doing density estimation, or something else. To do it the naive way, SVG is impractical
- MartinMond 14y agoBut isn't collapsing points into larger marks or density estimation and so on stuff that d3 (or it's predecessor protovis) is made for? I thought, yes if you want to just draw 10k points obviously canvas will win, if you want to do (interactive) graphs and plots svg wins.