Houdini – Visualizing Flight Routes Tutorial

[Instructor] Moritz Schwind

In this tutorial by Moritz Schwind, we’ll use Houdini’s built-in nodes to import CSV data and use this data for visualizing flight routes.

Topics covered include:

• Intro
• Importing the Data
• Converting from Lat/Lon To Cartesian (X/Y/Z)
• Building Flight Routes
• Projecting the Routes on a Sphere
• Lifting the Flight Paths
• Attributes for Rendering

Tutorial:

Download Project Files: entagma.com/quicktip-visualizing-flight-paths/

Useful Links:

openflights.org

Niklas Rosenstein’s Houdini Library

Wolfram Alpha on Converting Coordinates

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