Sunburst zooming and depth

[IvanSladkov]

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[archived-m]

I'm not sure how maxdepth solves the problem.
The problem is that we have many levels of depth that we cannot show, we have to clip them off to maintain sunburst size. When a user clicks to zoom one level deeper however, we can show the next level of depth. In that sense, you're maybe not really "zooming" but "traversing".
We're showing more information the deeper the user goes, not hiding previous levels of interaction.
Thoughts?

[IvanSladkov]

Yes right now it's not really zooming, that's true. But if we really want a zoom we'll have to show the entire data at once, this will make it really unclear. The further you go from the center, the smaller the nodes become on the sunburst. It will be unreadable and impractical with the amount of data we want to represent.
Maybe we can keep it at traversing, but show how many layers are omitted per node. That way the user will still get some information out of it, that will help with traversing the sunburst.

[archived-m]

But as I understand it, there is no traversal as of yet?
I like that right now we cut off the sunburst at a certain amount of nodes, that's good visibility. I'm proposing we show the node that was cut off when we zoom, and hide the nodes that were visible before the node we zoomed in on. Makes sense?

[IvanSladkov]

Right now, the maxdepth is the amount of children layers shown of the currently selected node. It starts off with the root as center and if you click on another node, that node becomes the center an you see the children of that node and all the upper layers are hidden. Isn't that what you mean?

[archived-m]

Ah you're right, I'm confused about maxdepth.
As it stands though, the upper layers are hidden, but no additional child layers are shown on zoom.

Let's say we have 10 levels, maxdepth 5. We zoom in on the second level, level one is hidden, but level 6 is not shown in its stead, right? Or is this very, very coincidental in our current data?