Visualize Real-World CSV/Excel Data in Blender (3D Chart Animation Nodes Tutorial) 

The first use of animation editor in blender i've ever seen...simply amazing. It opened my mind to the infinity. Thank you for this huge tutorial! Subscribed!

BTW don't have the greenscreen set up but instead used NVIDIA Broadcast to remove the background during the tutorial. What u think?

It would be useful to tell that animation nodes is an add-on not basic tool. Visualize Real-World CSV/Excel Data would be more like geological xyz data.

Question: the japanese moon lander ( jaxxa slim) gave lots of live data of its landing, they have never released an accurate animation ( render ) of its landing. What would it take to animate the landing given all the data is there? Data is basically: altitude( y), x and y movement, also roll rates are given as angular velocity. There is plenty of other data but that should be enough to do an animation?????

Step 1: Copy script exactly as shown here, substituting my own file path. Step 2: Click Play button... script works as expected. Me: I AM THE SUPER GENIUS GOD OF CODING

I think it would be cool to see this in real time in something like Unity. Interactive menu where you specify your csv and view the result in real time with the ability to zoom, pan, etc.

Thank you so much! I tried to import csv directly based on your previous json tutorial with no success, so I had to make a lengthy workaround. But now finally you explain how to do it. Extremely useful!

First! Can someone give this man a medal? Chocolate one ofcourse :D

Thanks for the video. I don't know if you are aware that someone made a chart creator add-on for Blender. It creates the most common data visualization charts and it even animates them.

for some reason my chart only displays one value in the text. The actual chart seems to show the right values in the height. Can you help me? EDIT: Nevermind i got it. I forgot to enable "copy full pobject" and "deep copy" on object instancer.

I got this working perfectly, generating the mesh and text objects in the proper location, except for displaying the values. All of my values are reading 654.8875 (the value in the last row) ... Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Here's my script... import csv data = [] with open('C:/[file path].csv') as f: reader = csv.reader(f) next(reader) for row in reader: data.append(row) print(data) EDIT: I got it! I neglected to check "Copy Full Object" and "Deep Copy" when adding my Object Instancer to the Subprogram loop.

I don't get why it's still showing the "edge is referencing a not existing vertex" error for me. I use my own csv file and when I only plug in the vector list and not edge indices and polygon indices it displays one row of verticies but outputs the error message, wenn I plug the other stuff in. My CSV file is basically a grid that has 8 by 10 entries, so I have 8 arrays with 10 entries each. In the viewer it doesn't show 21 (7x3) or 80 (10x8) for me but only "length 8". I suspect it has something to do with how the vectors are grouped and parsed but I really don't know how to fix it :(( Edit: When I only put in 2 x 4 divisions in the grid, it works. Because my vector list only outputs 8 vectors BUT I DONT GET WHY! When I visualize the invoke subprogram node I get all of my data in the right arrays. Edit 2: after some time I understood that I had a misconception about the heatmap you were building. I was able to fix it by simply writing everything in one column and separated it with the grid haha.

thx Chris, just waiting for pie charts now 😉 keep it up👍

blender is so powerful. I was able to take the topical data from Mt diablo and import it to blender and it automatically set up the nodes and framework. is that what this video's about? sorry I didn't watch this video

Good vid Chris, useful tutorial. Sometimes a chart's data updates in real time, this might be a topic for another video. Was wondering why so many youtube presenters waving their hands around? maybe just me but I find it so distracting. Above all else quality content is what will attract and sustain subscribers.

After spending all my weak end - nothing work! Thank you for the tutorial....1

Excellent job on this one! Keep it up! Is there a way to combine AN with regular timeline animation?

Wow I really love this. I'm gonna impress my co-workers with this one.

Your animation nodes videos are the best I've seen on here. The ideas and uses that you come with and explain really help to de-mystify this amazing add-on. Looking forward to more great videos!

Awesome. Thanks alot chris. How can we animate through a set of similar CSV Data ?

Any thoughts on how something like this would work in 3.0+? Seems like all that scripting support in geometry nodes went away….for some reason

This is awesome, thank you!

jesus this blew my mind

This is fantastic 🎉 thanks for taking the time to share this. Is there a way to connect the orientation of the text to a specific camera?

Thanks a lot for this great tutorial!

@Chris P: Very cool! Have you ever tried to get XML files, namely GPX, into AN? I had limited success with a GPX converted to GeoJSON follwing your other tutorial. My goal is to create some kind of HUD which displays the track but also coords, speed, heading, etc. in text form.

WoW ...mega epic...more please..

awesome!It's not just a tutorial.For me,you are Master Yoda！

I cant seem to make it work. Where can I purchase the .csv file and the blend file? I looked in Blendermarket and it is not there.

Chris: This was a very instructive tutorial and will take me a ways towards what I want to do. However ... There is something glaringly obvious missing here, Animation. Can you please do a video showing how to use CSV data from a file to ANIMATE objects. I am trying to read a file of GPS data and use it to create an animated information overlay for video footage. My apologies if you have already done this and I missed finding it.

Hi I couldn't find the animation nodes in my software. at 2:28 kindly help

very nice. thanks

Would this also work with visualising geological data, i.e. Bern, Switzerland, or a section of the Lunar surface?

Nice work!

It's hard to follow if someone is just interested in this specific topic btw. If you would show on screen what buttons you press, it would allow people to try out this topic and from there maybe jump into the topic of blender in general. Also it seems that a lot on the interface changed.

Excellent!

OMG this is so awesome......i have a question...lets say I want to o it the other way around? I have a heat map and want to convert the color values to numbers or a shape from the colors?

Thanks for this content! Is there a way how to create a curve from an xyz .csv list? thanks!

Wow .......!

Danke!

Can you tell me how can I get the vertices into camera view as image pixel coordinates?

can we create a 4dimesional object with animation nodes

Damn! it looked so easy then I got an error main_execution_unit.py", line 38, in executeUnit exec(self.executeCodeObject, self.executionData, self.executionData) File "execution: 'AN Tree'", line 14, in File "group: 'My Loop'", line 30, in main TypeError: zip argument #2 must support iteration

This I great, thanks so much! Do you have any tutorials on using CSV files to control variables, colour for example over time? I cannot figure out how to use a CSV to manipulate keyframes! Thanks again

Youre the best.

every time I see a tutorial on animation nodes, I walk away wondering why they have to be more complicated than material nodes, which are really quite intuitive

amazin

The coolest thing I have ever seen

Could this be done in Geometry Nodes?