heatmap

Usage

drawHeatmap({points, width, height, [...args]}) ⇒ Buffer

Returns the Buffer of a png image of the heatmap. The points argument must be an Array containing the following properties: The center of the point px, py, the intensity of the point value. The range of values that makes the gradient are from 0 to 1, but it's possible to give values outside this range. Also, additional arguments can be given to overwrite the defaults for the kernel configuration.

Example

const fs = require("fs");
const heatmap = require("@luxedo/heatmap");

const points = [
  {
    px: 10,
    py: 10,
    value: 1,
    5igma: 30,
  },
  {
    px: 120,
    py: 30,
    value: 0.6,
    sigma: 50,
  },
  {
    px: 70,
    py: 130,
    value: 0.2,
    sigma: 70,
  },
];
const width = 150;
const height = 150;
const buf = heatmap.drawHeatmap(points, width, height);
fs.writeFileSync("example1.png", buf);

example1.png

drawGeoHeatmap({geoCoords, geoPoints, (pxPerDeg || (width | height)), [...args]}) ⇒ {buf (Buffer), origin (Object), end (Object)}

Returns an object with the Buffer (buf) of a png image of the heatmap, the northwestmost and southeastmost (origin, end) coordinates {lat, lng}. Inputs are geoCoords, the boundaries of the image, an Array of coordinates {lat, lng}; and geoPoints, an Array of {lat, lng, value}, configuration is similar to deawHeatmap. One of: pxPerDeg, width, height must be provided.

const geoCoords = [
  {
    lat: 0.0,
    lng: 0.0,
  },
  {
    lat: 0.3,
    lng: 0.3,
  },
];
const geoPoints = [
  {
    lat: 0.1,
    lng: 0.1,
    value: 1,
    sigma: 40,
  },
  {
    lat: 0.1,
    lng: 0.2,
    value: 0.6,
    sigma: 40,
  },
  {
    lat: 0.15,
    lng: 0.2,
    value: 0.2,
    sigma: 100,
  },
];
const pxPerDeg = 500;
const method = "max";
const buf = heatmap.drawGeoHeatmap({ geoCoords, geoPoints, pxPerDeg, method });
fs.writeFileSync("example2.png", buf);

example2.png

Arguments

drawHeatmap:

• points: Array of points to draw [{px, py, value}].
• width: width of the image.
• height: height of the image.
• colors: Either an Object for colormap configuration, or a String of a default colormap. Options: teelights, jet, parula, gray, magma, plasma, inferno, viridis.
• cropPolygon: Array of points [{px, py}] forming a polygon to crop the output image
• kernel: The RBF kernel for computing the intensity of the heatmap. Options: bump, cosine, dampedCosine, exponential, gaussian. linear, polynomial, step.
• method: The method for accumulating the intensities. Options: max, nearest, shepards, sum.
• methodArgs: Additional arguments for the method.

drawGeoHeatmap:

• geoCoords: Array of coordinates [{lat, lng}] of the boundaries of the heatmap. May also be used with crop when passing more than three coordinates to select the polygon inside the coordinates.
• geoPoints: Array of points to draw [{lat, lng, value}].
• pxPerDeg: Number of pixels per degree of latitude/longitude. To use this scaling mode neither width and height can be provided.
• width: Forces the image to have a certain width. Can be used alongside with height.
• height: Forces the image to have a certain height. Can be used alongside with width.
• colors: Either an Object for colormap configuration, or a String of a default colormap. Options: teelights, jet, parula, gray, magma, plasma, inferno, viridis.
• crop: Crops the polygon of the boundaries gven in geoCoords if true.
• kernel: The RBF kernel for computing the intensity of the heatmap . Options: bump, cosine, dampedCosine, exponential, gaussian. linear, polynomial, step.
• method: The method for accumulating the intensities. Options: max, nearest, shepards, sum.
• methodArgs: Additional arguments for the method.

Command line

$ heatmap --help
Usage: heatmap [-g] -i input_file -o output_file       heatmap [-g] [--] file

Options:
  --help        Show help                                              [boolean]
  --version     Show version number                                    [boolean]
  --geo, -g     Receives input as geographic data                      [boolean]
  --input, -i   Input json file with the configurations                 [string]
  --output, -o  Output png file                                         [string]
  --            Receives input from stdin and outputs to stdout

Example:
echo '{"points": [{"px": 10, "py": 10, "value": 1, "sigma": 30},
  {"px": 120, "py": 30, "value": 0.6, "sigma": 50},
  {"px": 70, "py": 130, "value": 0.2, "sigma": 70}],
  "width": 150,
  "height": 150,
  "method": "nearest"}' | bin/heatmap -- > example3.png

   See https://github.com/luxedo/heatmap for configuration details.

example3.png

Installation

Install via npm:

$ npm install @luxedo/heatmap

You need to have Cairo installed.

Kernels

There are 8 kernels used as Radial Basis Functions for determining the intensity of each pixel in the heatmap:

bump	cosine	dampedCosine	exponential
gaussian	linear	polynomial degree 2	step

bump

arguments:

• radius: Radius of the bump

cosine

arguments:

• omega: Angular frequency
• phi: Phase

dampedCosine

arguments:

• omega: Angular frequency
• phi: Phase
• epsilon: Decay

exponential

arguments:

• epsilon: Decay

gaussian

arguments:

• sigma: Standard deviation

linear

arguments:

• epsilon: Decay

polynomial

arguments:

• epsilon: Decay
• degree: Degree of the polynomial

step

arguments:

• radius: Radius of the step

sigmoidBorder

arguments:

• radius: Radius in pixels
• epsilon: Softness of the border
• sigma: Scaling factor

Geo Kernels

Geo Kernels are meant to add consistency for geographical data heatmaps by using more intuitive arguments and scaling the kernels correctly. These kernels are avaliable only for drawGeoHeatMap:

geoGaussian

arguments:

• radius: Radius of the gaussian in meters

geoSigmoidBorder

arguments:

• radius: Radius in meters
• epsilon: Softness of the border
• sigma: Scaling factor

Methods

There are 5 methods for accumulating the values of the points:

max	nearest	shepards	sum	alphaShepards

max

Gets the maximum value of any point

nearest

Gets the value for the nearest point

shepards

Computes a weighted sum of the points using a kernel. The default value is polynomial degree 5.

alphaShepards

Applies the shepards algoritm and also interpolates in the alpha channel

arguments:

• kernel: Name of the kernel (optional)
• kernelArgs: Extra arguments for the kernel (optional)

sum

Sums the values of all points.

Colors

The first option for configuring the colormap is by chosing one of the default colors:

teelights default	jet	parula	gray
magma	plasma	inferno	viridis

The second option is an Object containing the following properties:

• steps: Number of colors for interpolation.
• colors: An Array of the colors in the colormap in hex.
• weights: An Array of weights for each color (optional).

Example

const fs = require("fs");
const heatmap = require("@luxedo/heatmap");

const points = [
  {
    px: 10,
    py: 10,
    value: 1,
    sigma: 30,
  },
  {
    px: 120,
    py: 30,
    value: 0.6,
    sigma: 50,
  },
  {
    px: 70,
    py: 130,
    value: 0.2,
    sigma: 70,
  },
];
const width = 150;
const height = 150;

let colors = {
  steps: 30,
  values: ["#111122", "#44AA11", "#DDDDFF"],
  weights: [1, 2, 3],
};
buf = heatmap.drawHeatmap({ points, width, height, colors });
fs.writeFileSync("example4.png", buf);

example4.png

More Examples

kernel/method	max	nearest	shepards	sum
bump
cosine
dampedCosine
exponential
gaussian
linear
polynomial
step

License

@luxedo/heatmap - Creates heatmaps from latitude and longitude data MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Luiz Eduardo Amaral

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