Adjust Glyphs To Match Area

One thing I have been dealing with recently is the perception of the sizing of glyphs.

Currently, I have been using circles, triangles, and squares. When these are stacked on top of one another, there is clear differences in ‘size’, even though their size parameter could be the exact same. This is currently an expected behavior, due to how the glyphs are shown.

In the figure above the glyphs look much smaller. This is why I would suggest either a defaulted parameter where someone can make their areas equal to the equivalent width square, or just make it the default.

As an example, I calculated the coefficient needed to make a circle equivalent to the square.

size_of_square = 20
area_equivalent_size_of_circle = 1.12838 * size_of_square
area_equivalent_size_of_triangle = 1.51967 * size_of_square

With these calculations, I think you will find that the glyphs look much closer in size when using them in reference to each other.

Just wanted to get some thoughts.

[bryevdv]

In this case I think the main task is just to make the list of scale factors. Once that is done we can just put them anywhere convenient with a little documentation about what they are useful for. I’d say if you want to start with that we can figure out the rest later.

[bryevdv]

Thanks for the discussion and info @cbusenbu