Other Nate,
this is *exactly* the advice I needed.
indeed, i want to interact with the circles.
Much thanks!
N


On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Nate Vack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nate Hill <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > I should have provided a bit more information here.
> >
> > Here's a rough in-progress view of what I'm up to.
> > http://www.natehill.net/loadsketch/donerightclasses.html
> >
> > I was using processing.js to read a file and then visualize some of the
> > data... you can see the circles are being generated from the values in
> the
> > .txt file.
>
> If you want to be able to interact with the circles (and I would!),
> I'd recommend d3.js as an interface framework. SVG is slower if you
> want to draw lots of elements, but your elements are part of the DOM,
> so you can bind event handlers to them and such.
>
> And d3's approach of binding data and elements together is really
> elegant. It's remarkably easy to do stuff like this:
>
> http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/population.html
>
> With regards to your first question: parse the text into JSON,
> server-side, and send that. Modern browsers can process obscenely
> large JSON arrays really fast. You could parse the text client-side,
> but
>
> -n
>



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