GrandPerspective-style treemaps for the web and disk usage visualizer
Details
- External ID
- 47950902
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- GrandPerspective-style treemaps for the web and disk usage visualizer
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- April 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I like treemaps for visualizing hierarchical mass and density of resource usage. I've always particularly loved GrandPerspective's dense, colorful rendering, but haven't found a similar but generalized treemap that works in reactive web views across many data visualization contexts.So I built gp-treemap, a canvas-based web component that renders GP-style treemaps with millions of nodes: https://github.com/imbue-ai/gp-treemap/If you want to give it a spin, try something like this command to visualize hierarchical disk usage:npx -p @imbue-ai/gp-treemap gpdu ~/DownloadsFun fact: I built gp-treemap as a test case for Imbue's Sculptor (https://imbue.com/sculptor/) and Blueprint (https://imbue.com/product/blueprint) tools.
Enrichment
- Theme
- multimodal generative ai and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- disk usage visualization with treemaps
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Implementing a GrandPerspective-style squarified treemap rendering engine on HTML5 canvas or SVG with breadcrumb navigation and zoom interactions is a self-contained front-end visualization task.
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