Tom Pearson November 2015

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A simplified path generator for D3, a drop in replacement for d3.svg.line with the added ability to specify a tolerance.

In the case above:

var simple = simplePath() .tolerance(3) .x(function(d){ return dateScale(d.date); }) .y(function(d){ return valueScale(d.value); })

Based on Simplify.js a tiny high-performance JavaScript polyline simplification library by Vladimir Agafonkin, extracted from Leaflet, a JS interactive maps library by the same author.

It uses a combination of Ramer-Douglas-Peucker and Radial Distance algorithms.