Bonfire

d3-bboxCollide coupled with requestAnimationFrame and SVG filters to create a bonfire.

<html>
<head>
  <title>Bounding Box Collision</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8" />
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
<script src="collide.js"></script>
</head>
<style>
  svg {
    height: 500px;
    width: 500px;
    border: 1px solid lightgray;
  }
</style>
<body>

var filter = d3.select("svg").append("defs").append("filter").attr("id", "gooeyCodeFilter");
  filter.append("feGaussianBlur").attr("id", "gaussblurrer").attr("in", "SourceGraphic").attr("stdDeviation", 6).attr("color-interpolation-filters", "sRGB").attr("result", "blur");
  filter.append("feColorMatrix").attr("in", "blur").attr("mode", "matrix").attr("values", "1 0 0 0 0  0 1 0 0 0  0 0 1 0 0  0 0 0 34 -7").attr("result", "gooey");

var start = 0

var randomPoints = d3.range(500).map(function (d,i) {
  return {value: Math.random(), key: i}
})

var currentTick = 500

var networkCenter = d3.forceCenter().x(250).y(250);

var forceX = d3.forceX(function (d) {return 100})
    .strength(0.03)

var forceY = d3.forceY(function (d) {return d.value * 500})
    .strength(0.5)

var collide = d3.bboxCollide(function (d,i) {
    return [[-d.value * 20, -d.value * 10],[d.value * 20, d.value * 10]]
  })
  .strength(0.5)
  .iterations(1)

var color = d3.scaleOrdinal(["#8a2b57", "#b13e1f", "#aa8d0f", "#b67221"])

d3.select("svg.main")
  .append("g")
  .attr("class", "viz")
.style("filter", "url(#gooeyCodeFilter)")
function step(timestamp) {
  if (!start) start = timestamp;
  var progress = timestamp - start;
  particles(progress);
    window.requestAnimationFrame(step);
}

window.requestAnimationFrame(step);

function particles(progress) {

var nodeEnter = d3.select("g.viz")
  .selectAll("g.node")
  .data(randomPoints, function (d) {return d.key})
  .enter()
  .append("g")
  .attr("class", "node")

var nodeExit = d3.select("g.viz")
  .selectAll("g.node")
  .data(randomPoints, function (d) {return d.key})
  .exit()
  .remove()

nodeEnter.append("rect")
    .attr("class", "base")
    .style("fill-opacity", 1)
    .style("fill", function (d, i) {return d3.color(color(d.key)).brighter(1)})

var force = d3.forceSimulation(randomPoints)
    .velocityDecay(0.6)
    .force("center", networkCenter)
    .force("x", forceX)
    .force("y", forceY)
    .force("collide", collide)
    .on("tick", updateNetwork)
    .stop()

force.tick()

d3.selectAll("rect")
    .attr("width", function (d) {return d.value * 40})
    .attr("height", function (d) {return d.value * 20})
    .attr("x", function (d) {return d.x + -d.value * 20})
    .attr("y", function (d) {return d.y + -d.value * 10})

randomPoints.forEach(function (d) {
    d.value = d.value - 0.005
  })

randomPoints = randomPoints.filter(function (d) {return d.value > 0})

randomPoints.push({value: 1.25, x: Math.random() * 300 + 100, y: 750, key: currentTick += 1})

function updateNetwork() {
  }

}

</script>
  </footer>

</html>

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