Non-fractional ouput?

[c0bra]

Hi! Thanks for the great library.

Quick question: I'd like to use this to output treemaps on the terminal, where I don't have the capability to render at fractional points. What would be the safest way to handle this? Just giving it the barest of glances I think I could round things down and add the remainders back to the final elements. Wouldn't be perfect but could work.

Thoughts?

[huy-nguyen]

Thanks for your interest. That’s the classic rasterization problem in computer graphics. I haven’t dealt a lot with fractional pixels but I think a bulletproof solution would blend the colors of two adjacent cells based on how much of that row/column is occupied by each cell. A good-enough solution might give the row/column the color of the cell that occupies the most area in that row/column.

One concern that I have about rounding down all cells and giving the leftover pixels to the last cells in a row/column is that this algorithm tends to put the smallest cells on the bottom right corner so if you give those small cells the leftover pixels, these cells may be a lot larger (percentage-wise) than their correct size. However, if you think the cells in your tree map won’t be of radically different sizes (say, a factor of 100 or 1000) then that approach might work quite well.

[alana314]

@c0bra can I have whatever you're building?

[c0bra]

@Jordan314 I was wanting to do a package size analysis plugin for rollup, I think, but I never got around to it.