Particle Flow

Particles travel along each link; their density follows the flow.

Chart type: Sankey sankey
Tier: Premium
Collection: Sankey
Render: Live, site theme

LIVE/sankey/particle-flow10 of 23 in Sankey

Open the chart without page chrome ↗Drawing width at least 900 px. Scroll within the chart on smaller screens.

Configuration

const options = {
  chart: {
    height: 380,
    toolbar: {
      show: false
    },
    type: "sankey"
  },
  series: [
    {
      data: [
        ["Ingest", "Queue", 80],
        ["Queue", "Workers", 74],
        ["Queue", "Dead letter", 6],
        ["Workers", "Storage", 52],
        ["Workers", "Search index", 22]
      ]
    }
  ],
  plotOptions: {
    sankey: {
      link: {
        colorMode: "source",
        particles: {
          enabled: true,
          density: 1.2,
          speed: 1
        }
      }
    }
  },
  theme: {
    mode: "light",
    preset: "coastal"
  }
}

const chart = new WestCoastCharts(document.querySelector('#chart'), options)
chart.render()

01 · Speccomplete, runnable

import WestCoastCharts from 'west-coast-charts'
import types from 'west-coast-charts/types'
import premium from 'west-coast-charts/premium'

WestCoastCharts.use(types).use(premium)
const WestCoastChartsPremium = premium
WestCoastCharts.setLicenseKey(LICENCE_KEY) // paid production licence; localhost evaluation needs no key

const options = {
  chart: {
    height: 380,
    toolbar: {
      show: false
    },
    type: "sankey"
  },
  series: [
    {
      data: [
        ["Ingest", "Queue", 80],
        ["Queue", "Workers", 74],
        ["Queue", "Dead letter", 6],
        ["Workers", "Storage", 52],
        ["Workers", "Search index", 22]
      ]
    }
  ],
  plotOptions: {
    sankey: {
      link: {
        colorMode: "source",
        particles: {
          enabled: true,
          density: 1.2,
          speed: 1
        }
      }
    }
  },
  theme: {
    mode: "light",
    preset: "coastal"
  }
}

const chart = new WestCoastCharts(document.querySelector('#chart'), options)
await chart.render()

02 · Rendered state

Waiting for the chart.

Open Data & agent view to read this chart through chart.describe().

Read from the running library through its optional agent/describe module. Text, table and JSON share the same snapshot. Demo data only.

03 · CLIPublic tools

$ wcc chart export sankey-particle-flow.json --out sankey-particle-flow.svg --with-table

Public agent tools 0.2.3, tested with Library 1.1.5; available from the versioned GitHub release and npm. Save a JSON spec first and check the loaded runtime and supported modules before rendering. Command reference

04 · Markdown/gallery/sankey/particle-flow/index.md

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