expose the area of the geometry as *geometry*.area #47
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It can be used, for example, to filter out "frames", i.e. the whole rectangle returned for a value < min(values), by testing geometry.area > n * m - 3/4 https://observablehq.com/d/0cef46faf6b9c53c See #14
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I agree this is easy to expose, but I don’t think it’s especially useful per discussion on #14. So I’d prefer to minimize the exposed API. |
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It can be used, for example, to filter out "frames", i.e. the whole rectangle returned for a value <= min(values) (here the very light blue region), by testing geometry.area > n * m - 3/4
https://observablehq.com/d/0cef46faf6b9c53c
See #14
Computing the area can be done user-side, however it doesn't cost anything to add it here, since we've already computed it.