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D3.js geoHealpix() Function

The d3.geoHealpix() function returns Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a 2-sphere. In this implementation, the parameter K is fixed at 3.

Note: It requires clipping to the sphere.

Syntax:

d3.geoHealpix()

Parameters: This method does not accept any parameter.

Return Value: This method creates Healpix projection from the given JSON data.

Example 1: The following example creates Healpix projection of the world with center at (0, 0) and no rotation.

HTML




<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <meta charset="UTF-8" /> 
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, 
                initial-scale=1.0" /> 
    <script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.js">
     </script> 
    <script src= 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <div style="width:700px; height:600px;"> 
        <svg width="700" height="550"> 
        </svg> 
    </div> 
  
    <script> 
        var svg = d3.select("svg"), 
            width = +svg.attr("width"), 
            height = +svg.attr("height"); 
  
        // Healpix projection 
        // Center(0, 0) and no rotation 
        var gfg = d3.geoHealpix() 
            .scale(width / 1.5 / Math.PI) 
            .rotate([0, 0]) 
            .center([0, 0]) 
            .translate([width / 2, height / 3]) 
  
        // Loading the json data 
        // Used json file stored at 
        // https://raw.githubusercontent.com/epistler999/ 
        // GeoLocation/master/world.json
        d3.json("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/"
            +"epistler999/GeoLocation/master/world.json", 
            function (data) { 
                // Draw the map 
                svg.append("g") 
                    .selectAll("path") 
                    .data(data.features) 
                    .enter().append("path") 
                    .attr("fill", "black") 
                    .attr("d", d3.geoPath() 
                        .projection(gfg) 
                    ) 
                   .style("stroke", "#ffff") 
            }) 
    </script> 
</html> 


Output:

Example 2 : In the following example we will create HealPix projection of world with center at (30, 0) and rotating 30 degree anti-clockwise with respect to Y-axis.

HTML




<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <meta charset="UTF-8" /> 
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, 
                initial-scale=1.0" /> 
    <script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.js">
    </script> 
    <script src= 
       "https://d3js.org/d3-geo-projection.v2.min.js"> 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <div style="width:700px; height:600px;"> 
        <svg width="700" height="550"> 
        </svg> 
    </div> 
  
    <script> 
        var svg = d3.select("svg"), 
            width = +svg.attr("width"), 
            height = +svg.attr("height"); 
  
        // Healpix projection 
        // Center(30, 0) and 30 degree rotation 
        var gfg = d3.geoHealpix() 
            .scale(width / 1.5 / Math.PI) 
            .rotate([-30, 0]) 
            .center([30, 0]) 
            .translate([width / 2, height / 2]) 
  
        // Loading the json data 
        // Used json file stored at 
        // https://raw.githubusercontent.com/epistler999/ 
        // GeoLocation/master/world.json
        d3.json("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/"
            +"epistler999/GeoLocation/master/world.json", 
            function (data) { 
                // Draw the map 
                svg.append("g") 
                    .selectAll("path") 
                    .data(data.features) 
                    .enter().append("path") 
                    .attr("fill", "black") 
                    .attr("d", d3.geoPath() 
                        .projection(gfg) 
                    ) 
                   .style("stroke", "#ffff") 
            }) 
    </script> 
</body>
</html> 


Output :

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