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Monday, March 31, 2008

Pixel Pies are served

So I saw this post on Anil Dashes' Blog about how there has been a sudden trend of using pixels as the new pie charts. You can see it in an article by Wired News.


Wired News - Pixel Pie Graph


One very important question he raised was the structure that would be formed by these pixels. Like whether or not we should stack it up vertically or horizontally, randomly or take time to strategically placing each pixel as shown above. Today I made this JS Object that makes such a graph, it vertically stacks all the values. It ended up looking something like this -

Wired News - Pixel Pie Graph


Its just a single object, one page I think, pretty neat. I'll be posting a tutorial on how to make something like this pretty soon.

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