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Change a graphic’s symbol based on the camera’s proximity to it.

Image of distance composite symbol

Use case

When showing dense datasets, it is beneficial to reduce the detail of individual points when zooming out to avoid visual clutter and to avoid data points overlapping and obscuring each other.

How to use the sample

The sample starts looking at a plane. Zoom out from the plane to see it turn into a cone. Keeping zooming out and it will turn into a point.

How it works

  1. Create a GraphicsOverlay object and add it to a SceneView object.
  2. Create a DistanceCompositeSceneSymbol object.
  3. Create DistanceCompositeSceneSymbol.Range objects specifying a Symbol and the min and max distance within which the symbol should be visible.
  4. Add the ranges to the range collection of the distance composite scene symbol.
  5. Create a Graphic object with the distance composite scene symbol at a location and add it to the graphics overlay.

Relevant API

  • DistanceCompositeSceneSymbol
  • DistanceCompositeSceneSymbol.Range

Tags

3D, data, graphic

Sample Code

module-info.java module-info.java DistanceCompositeSymbolSample.java
/*
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module com.esri.samples.distance_composite_symbol {
// require ArcGIS Maps SDK for Java module
requires com.esri.arcgisruntime;
// handle SLF4J http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder
requires org.slf4j.nop;
// require JavaFX modules that the application uses
requires javafx.graphics;
exports com.esri.samples.distance_composite_symbol;
}