Icon array: better icon arrangement algorithm

xiaoyingpu commented 4 years ago

Requirements

[ ] Icon arrays look reasonable with any number of dots, like not too tall, not too short, but also consider the number of groups in the plot. e.g.
[ ] scales and adjusts based on window size

Intermediate steps

[ ] (Optional) Read a paper (or something else) to figure out how other people do it Park, D., Drucker, S. M., Fernandez, R., & Elmqvist, N. (2017). ATOM: A Grammar for Unit Visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2626(c). https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2017.2785807
[ ] (Optional) Prototype an algorithm without actually using ggplot (print dots in the terminal, etc)
[ ] Figure out if it is possible to have icons arrange themselves when the window is resized

mjskay commented 3 years ago

xiaoyingpu commented 3 years ago

@DanielWang2029 test cases:

xiaoyingpu commented 3 years ago

Pending code from @DanielWang2029

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