I have a diagram very similar to circle packing
At some point, a user wants to see some different data. Obviously, a different diagram can be displayed immediately,
It looks that I finally resolved all issues. jsfiddle is here.
Here is the whole code (except data definition and button creation) that handles smooth circle pack layout transition:
var diameter = 500,
format = d3.format(",d"),
dataSource = 2;
var pack = d3.layout.pack()
.size([diameter - 4, diameter - 4])
.value(function(d) { return d.size; });
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", diameter)
.attr("height", diameter);
var data = getData();
var vis = svg.datum(data).selectAll(".node")
.data(pack.nodes)
.enter()
.append("g");
var titles = vis.append("title")
.attr("x", function(d) { return d.x; })
.attr("y", function(d) { return d.y; })
.text(function(d) { return d.name +
(d.children ? "" : ": " + format(d.value)); });
var circles = vis.append("circle")
.attr("stroke", "black")
.style("fill", function(d) { return !d.children ? "tan" : "beige"; })
.attr("cx", function(d) { return d.x; })
.attr("cy", function(d) { return d.y; })
.attr("r", function(d) { return d.r; });
updateVis();
function updateVis() {
if (dataSource == 0)
pack.value(function(d) { return d.size; });
if (dataSource == 1)
pack.value(function(d) { return 100; });
if (dataSource == 2)
pack.value(function(d) { return 1 +
Math.floor(Math.random()*301); });
var data1 = pack.nodes(data);
titles.attr("x", function(d) { return d.x; })
.attr("y", function(d) { return d.y; })
.text(function(d) { return d.name +
(d.children ? "" : ": " + format(d.value)); });
circles.transition()
.duration(5000)
.attr("cx", function(d) { return d.x; })
.attr("cy", function(d) { return d.y; })
.attr("r", function(d) { return d.r; });
};