landonferg / data-fx

Load CSV files in Blender3d to visualize data

Data-FX

Data-FX is an addon for Blender (2.9) that allows for the visualization of data with different charts

Currently, there are only 2 chart options...

• A Scatter plot which plots up to 3 values in 3d space
• And a "Map plot" that visualizes points on a sphere when given longitudes and latitudes

Below are some examples

How To

Data-FX is located in the View3D sidebar (N -> DataFX)

Simply select the headers from your csv file, edit your settings, and hit generate!

Notable Features

• Custom duplicate objects (Scatter Plot)
• Auto axis markers (Scatter Plot)
• Auto populating .csv header selection (Scatter Plot, Map Plot)
• Support of Geographic coordinate data (Map Plot)

Planned Features

• More chart types
• More supported data types
• Various chart loading optimizations
• Global chart menu

data-fx's Issues

Allow for 2D Scatter Plots

Add some sort of "None" option for the 3rd dimension dropdown. (Or just add a checkbox to enable/disable 3d all together)

Add Global Settings Panel

Instead of initializing each graph with its own individual settings, make a panel that has global settings for any graph.

Map Values in Scatter Plot

Currently all values are read from the file and directly translated into their respective positions. Instead of this being hard-coded, the user should be able to choose the size of the graph they want and have the values be mapped to that range.

Allow Headers in CSV to be Viewed in Plugin

Right now Data-FX only uses numerics to represent the headers you want to select for your x, y and z values for generating a scatter plot. These should be represented instead by their header names to be more human readable.