The Highcharts library has the ability to plot charts using a polar coordinate system.

From https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/chart.polar

This is a request to allow the Charts module to leverage this functionality.

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John Cook created an issue. See original summary.

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john cook commented
Status: Active » Needs review
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I've created a patch to allow this functionality. Currently it works when used as an API, but not when used with Views.

I added the following line to the example code to test:
$options['polar'] = TRUE;

Before the patch the area example using Highcharts looked like this:

And after the patch:

As Google Charts does not currently implement a polar coordinate system, the setting is ignored and the output looks like:

  • andileco committed b8a763a on 8.x-3.x 
    Issue #2944087 by John Cook, andileco: Add polar plotting to Highcharts...
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andileco commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed

I went ahead and added Views/Blocks integration, which required small changes to the patch.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)