I'm trying to add labels to the planets around the sun into this example : http://bl.ocks.org/djvanderlaan/4953593. So far, I've managed to add the labels, but the orientation of the labels is rotating with their position, while I want to keep them horizontal for the comfort of the readers. I've been finding a beginning of a solution to my problem here : how to keep text orientation unchanged during rotation in SVG but it's seems very complicated to me (I am a newbie and really not good at trigonometry) and plus, it's not using d3.js. Here is the code that I'am using :
<div id="planetarium">
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var w = 800, h = 600;
var t0 = Date.now();
var planets = [
{ R: 300, r: 5, speed: 5, phi0: 90, name : 'Mercure'},
{ R: 150, r: 10, speed: 2, phi0: 190, name : 'Saturne'}
];
var svg = d3.select("#planetarium").insert("svg")
.attr("width", w).attr("height", h);
svg.append("circle").attr("r", 20).attr("cx", w/2)
.attr("cy", h/2).attr("class", "sun")
var container = svg.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + w/2 + "," + h/2 + ")")
container.selectAll("g.planet").data(planets).enter().append("g")
.attr("class", "planet").each(function(d, i) {
var orbit = d3.select(this).append("circle").attr("class", "orbit")
.attr("r", d.R);
var planet = d3.select(this).append("circle").attr("r", d.r).attr("cx",d.R)
.attr("cy", 0).attr("class", "planet");
var text = d3.select(this).append("text")
.attr("x", d.R)
.attr("y", ".31em")
.text(function(d) { return d.name; });
d3.timer(function() {
var delta = (Date.now() - t0);
planet.attr("transform", function(d) {
return "rotate(" + d.phi0 + delta * d.speed/200 + ")";
});
text.attr("transform", function(d) {
return "rotate(" + d.phi0 + delta * d.speed/200 + ")";
});
});
});
</script>
Here is my plunkr : http://plnkr.co/edit/dJEVXIeR7ly536tcMPWt?p=preview Thank you very much for your help !