It would be nice to learn D3. After reading many examples, I think I understand it. My first project is to make a color wheel, without transitions for simplicity. But it
Your example here doesn't have any data defined. If you just want to draw the svg statically, skip the selectAll() and data() bindings:
chart
.append("svg:path")
.attr("fill", function(d, i){
return d3.rgb("black");
})
.attr("d", arc)
;
Or define some data and use that to drive the drawing:
http://jsfiddle.net/findango/aGdMX/2/
(plus .attr("fill"
... should be .style("fill"
...)