This demo shows some of the basic properties that can be animated to highlight items and draw users' attention.

The demo features animation of five different properties, although you can animate many more:

• Node enlargement
• Node position
• Link width
• Node and Font Icon colour
• Ping to add an animated effect to nodes and links

Animation is a powerful visual tool that lets your users highlight interesting items. For example, ping can be used to add an animated halo effect that could represent new or updated nodes.

For a real use-case example of animation, see the Social Network Analysis demo.

Key functions used:

• chart.animateProperties
• chart.ping