For this mandala I played around a little with the white space. In the center the white space makes a flower, or sun shape, and around the curved droplets some white leaf or petal shapes emerge.
Moving towards mandala inspired data visualizations
The interactions are working pretty well now. Using the zoom buttons you can zoom in much further than the browser alone will let you. And, introducing dragging! You can now move the image around by grabbing and dragging it. Finally, this is the first of my mandalas that is data driven. The mandala is generated from a JSON data structure instead of being defined with lines of software. Notice that every shape now has it's own description. Those descriptions are in the data, not written in lines of software. The data structure for this mandala is defined in javascript, on the client side. So the next step is to send the json data structure from the server, created in python and representative of a dataset.
