I wanted to draw a month-at-a-glance calendar page with several days circled, but drawing perfect circles looked odd, so I looked for a way to imitate hand-drawn (imperfect) circles. TL;DR Cubic Bézier segments do the trick, based on this approximation to a perfect circle. This was originally a gist hosted at bl.ocks.org, which seems dead now. This clone might still work. ...

An example illustrating zoom and pan with a “rolling” Mercator projection in D3. Drag left-right to rotate projection cylinder, and up-down to translate, clamped by max absolute latitude. Ensures projection always fits properly in viewbox. This was originally a gist hosted at bl.ocks.org, which seems dead now. This clone might still work.

Adapted from this, to avoid the second projection and make flying arc height proportional to length. Because the ‘sky’ projection is just a scaled up version of the original one, the projection of a sky point in canvas coords can be calculated by simply scaling the ground projection point along the vector from the origin. Another improvement(?) might be to avoid the swoosh/inter...

This example illustrates a simple trackball approach for rotating an orthographic globe with D3 3.0. Click and drag on the globe animation below. The idea is to express the click location in spherical coordinates with two orthogonal rotations: one with a horizontal axis, and one with a vertical axis. When we drag with the mouse, we then can rotate the underlying sphere so that ...