nyc styling demo

[rahwang]

Hey @lilleyse , how's this? I'll add a thumbnail tomorrow.

[lilleyse]

At first glance there are too many styling sliders and it isn't immediately clear how the styling is related to the metadata. I would aim to follow the original demo more closely with coloring by height, hiding by height, and color palettes.

But there is also room to explore. Each building contains area, longitude, and latitude properties which can be used to create completely different types of styles. At least for me, variety is the key for this Sandcastle.

[rahwang]

The sliders are just to control the color palette -- I can definitely trim them down to perhaps one per color channel unless you think I should just limit the color palettes to some pre-defined oNES.

As for variety, I was a bit hesitant about making this example too long, like the other one. Do you think it's worth having examples for coloring by height as well as say area? Because those will differ only really in ${height} vs ${area}

[lilleyse]

I think some predefined color gradients is the simplest way to go. The binning approach from the original demo could be dropped as well so that the style is simpler.

A style that colors by area is actually kind of nice because it contrasts with styling by height. Other style ideas might be:

• Only show buildings whose area is greater than height
• Color by volume
• Color by distance from some landmark using longitude and latitude and the distance function
• Something abstract using tiles3d_tileset_time maybe?