syrto_radar_chart returns the same chart as syrto_radar_map - same companies, same axes - as a self-contained SVG image instead of an on-screen widget. It is vector, so it stays sharp in print, and it needs no network and no fonts installed.
Use it when the picture has to land in a file: an HTML report, a PDF, a Word document, a slide. It is also the tool that produces a picture at all on a host that does not render MCP Apps.
The figure on the Radar map page is exactly what this tool returns.
Use this tool to
- Put the radar positioning chart into a document or slide
- Get a chart on a host where the interactive map cannot render
Arguments
The chart takes the same five company sources assyrto_radar_map, and they mean exactly the same things: company_id, peer_ids, peer_filters, company_lists, and aggregates. language and trajectories behave the same way too, except that trajectories is final here - there is no button on an image.
The rendering options below are specific to this tool.
boolean
Draw company name labels on the chart. Default
true. Turn it off when the document names the companies itself in a caption or legend, or when the chart is crowded enough that the labels cover it.boolean
Draw the Syrto contour background - the shading that says which regions of the map are strong. Default
true; it is what makes the chart readable as a position rather than a scatter plot. Turning it off is a size lever worth about 6 KB.integer
Chart width in pixels, 320 to 2000. Default
960.integer
Chart height in pixels, 240 to 2000. Default
560.The default is landscape on purpose: the two axes are uncorrelated scores scaled independently, so a square preserves nothing. Match the width to the column the figure sits in - text and markers are a fixed pixel size, so a much larger chart has proportionally smaller-looking labels.
Size limit
Unlike the interactive map, this chart has a size limit, because the image travels back as text. There is no fixed company count: cost is dominated by the companies themselves - legal name length, group name, how many filed years they have, whether they carry a forecast - plus the reference lines and the chart size. A plain peer set with ordinary names reaches roughly 90; the same set with long names, forecasts, and four reference lines can run out well under half that. If not every company fits, the chart draws as many as do - the focus company first, every reference line kept - andwarning says how many were left out. To fit more, the levers are trajectories: false, labels: false, field: false, a smaller width and height, or fewer reference lines.
Returns
Two things in one result.object
The same summary
syrto_radar_map returns - axes, companies (with id, name, role, group, color, consolidated, start, latest, forecast), latest_year, unavailable_ids, and peer_population. This is what you write the surrounding prose from.color is a colour name rather than a hex, so a caption can say “the green ones” and match what the reader sees.resource
The chart itself, as an embedded
image/svg+xml resource. Save the text verbatim as a .svg file, or inline it in HTML. Do not retype or reformat the SVG - copy it byte for byte.string | null
Present when the chart ran out of room, reporting how many companies were left out.
The two axes are scaled independently, so a path’s angle on screen is not its angle in score space. Describe direction per axis - “larger and more efficient” - rather than describing the slope.