Gooey Force Layout N-body Problem with Contours

A combination of Mike Bostock's NBody Problem using a Force Layout, combined with one of his point density contours examples. Here's a quick canvas mock up - and here's a trippier one when you forget to clean the canvas each tick.

Using contours might allow for some sort of alternative gooey effect with nodes when splitting or merging nodes.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>

</style>
<svg width="960" height="500"></svg>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3-contour.v1.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3-scale-chromatic.v1.min.js"></script>
<script>

var svg = d3.select("svg");
var width = svg.attr("width")
var height = svg.attr("height")

var nodes = d3.range(500).map(function() {
 return  {}
});

var color = d3.scaleSequential(d3.interpolateYlGnBu)
    .domain([0, 0.016]); // Points per square pixel.

svg.append("g")
      .attr("fill", "none")
      .attr("stroke", "#000")
      .attr("stroke-width", 0.5)
      .attr("stroke-linejoin", "round")
    .selectAll("path")
    .data(d3.contourDensity()
        .x(function(d) { return d.x; })
        .y(function(d) { return d.y; })
        .size([width, height])
		.thresholds([0.02,0.06,0.08,0.16,0.32,0.64,1.28])
        .bandwidth(10)
      (nodes))
    .enter().append("path")
      .attr("fill", function(d) { return color(d.value); })
      .attr("d", d3.geoPath());

var simulation = d3.forceSimulation()
    .force("charge", d3.forceManyBody().strength(0.05))
	.force("center", d3.forceCenter(width / 2, height / 2))
	.alphaDecay(0)
	.velocityDecay(0)
    .nodes(nodes)
    .on("tick", ticked);

function ticked() {

svg.selectAll("path")
    .data(d3.contourDensity()
        .x(function(d) { return d.x; })
        .y(function(d) { return d.y; })
        .size([width, 960])
		.thresholds([0.02,0.06,0.08,0.16,0.32,0.64,1.28])
        .bandwidth(10)
      (nodes))
      .attr("fill", function(d) { return color(d.value); })
      .attr("d", d3.geoPath());

}

</script>

https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js

https://d3js.org/d3-contour.v1.min.js

https://d3js.org/d3-scale-chromatic.v1.min.js