The subdivision algorithm and display style are intended to mimic the old version of spacemonger. For whatever reason, that was always my favorite way of visualizing disk space, and I wanted to use something similar on Linux.
I wanted to replace the Tk renderer with an SVG one using SMIL [1],but got discouraged when I learned it was deprecated. Looking it up just now, I see that the deprecation is apparently suspended, so maybe I'll get around to that after all...
The subdivision algorithm and display style are intended to mimic the old version of spacemonger. For whatever reason, that was always my favorite way of visualizing disk space, and I wanted to use something similar on Linux.
I wanted to replace the Tk renderer with an SVG one using SMIL [1],but got discouraged when I learned it was deprecated. Looking it up just now, I see that the deprecation is apparently suspended, so maybe I'll get around to that after all...
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_animati...