[Suggestion] allowing sum of sections to be different than 1. #2
Description
Sum of section percentages must be equal to 1
you should be able to draw a pie chart even if the sum of total sections is not equal to 1,
by normalizing the given percentages to 1.
example 1 (when the total sum is greater than 1):
[{"color": red, "percentage": 1}, {"color": blue, "percentage": 1}] => should resolve into 0.5 for each of the sections.
example 2 (when the sum is smaller than 1):
[{"color": red, "percentage": 0.5}, {"color": blue, "percentage": 0.25}] => should resolve into 0.66 for red, and 0.33 for blue.
the general way to do that calculation:
you can calculate the total sum of all percentages.
const allPercentages = sections.map(s => s.percentage).reduce((sum, i) => sum + i, 0);
and then recalculate the normalized percentage for each section to be: const normalizedPercentage = percentage / allPercentages.
as a side-effect, you also gain the ability to pass the percentage as "whole numbers" like 50, 75 etc. (representing 50%, 75%).
because now they don't have a restriction that force then to sum to 1.