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File sizes across orders of magnitude

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Multiplying the size by ten moves the same distance.

Plain source. Run as a browser module after the document body exists. TSX uses jsx: "react-jsx" and jsxImportSource: "@pibbl/core".

import { Circle, Group, Overlay, Text, pibbl } from "@pibbl/core";
import {
Axis,
LogScale,
useLogScale,
type LogScaleProps,
type ResolvedLogScale,
} from "@pibbl/core/viz";
// Illustrative values, not a measured dataset.
const values = [1, 10, 100, 1000];
const scaleProps: LogScaleProps = {
id: "position",
domain: [1, 1000],
range: "width",
style: { width: 430, height: 60 },
base: 10,
};
function Marks() {
const scale: ResolvedLogScale = useLogScale("position").get();
return (
<>
<Axis
scale="position"
position="bottom"
tickValues={values}
tickFormat={(value) => `${value} KB`}
/>
{values.map((value) => (
<Circle
key={String(value)}
style={{ radius: 5, cx: scale.map(value), cy: 30, fill: "#087f8c" }}
/>
))}
</>
);
}
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = 560;
canvas.height = 210;
canvas.style.cssText = "max-width:100%;height:auto";
document.body.append(canvas);
const app = pibbl(
canvas,
<>
<Text
style={{
left: 20,
top: 28,
font: "600 18px sans-serif",
fill: "#183153",
}}
>
File sizes across orders of magnitude
</Text>
<Text
style={{ left: 20, top: 54, font: "13px sans-serif", fill: "#475569" }}
>
Multiplying the size by ten moves the same distance.
</Text>
<Group style={{ translateX: 65, translateY: 80 }}>
<Overlay style={{ width: 430, height: 60 }}>
<LogScale {...scaleProps}>
<Marks />
</LogScale>
</Overlay>
</Group>
</>,
);
window.addEventListener("pagehide", () => app.dispose(), { once: true });
  • Compare 1, 10, 100, and 1,000 KB: equal ratios occupy equal distances. LogScale requires a strictly positive domain; use SymlogScale when values cross zero.

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