Tree Illustrator

Generate repeatable, data-driven, publication quality figures of trees.

In our current roadmap, the Tree Illustrator will be integrated with the main Open Tree apps and docstore, as well as Arbor workflow tools. This raises many questions about:

• data visibility and access
• pre- and post-publication use cases
• incentives for participation in Open Tree

Initial work is focused on a proof-of-concept web application and on further discussion in the wiki.

Our simple project website is managed with GitHub Pages; by convention, its source can be found in the gh-pages branch of this repository.

Bundling the JS with NPM and Browserify

Our code incorporates Vega 2, so we've adopted their basic toolchain for bundling most of Tree Illustrator's functionality in CommonJS modules. See this wiki page for a quick overview of the build tools required (Node.js, npm, Browserify) and a basic working setup that will watch your source files and attempt bundle them following any saved changes.