<p>For my research I created my own bit of Blender UI, interfacing with a database containing research data. Blender helped me a lot by visualizing and transforming this data. In this workshop I will talk about (and show) what these useful techniques have helped me to achieve. We&#39;ll focus on:</p>

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<li>Creating objects in Blender through Python API calls.<br />
This will simply start by selecting the Scripting layout, utilizing the auto-completion of the interactive console to explore the available operators, data, etc.</li>
<li>Restructuring those calls into an operator.<br />
After showing the console, we&#39;ll move to the text editor and create an operator. This will make it easier to apply the same code in different situations.</li>
<li>Extending the Blender UI to call your operators.<br />
A text file is nice, a proper Blender extension is better. Especially when it extends the Blender UI and things get easy to use.</li>
<li>Loading data from a SQLite database to populate your UI.<br />
This gives us the ability to load &amp; visualize data from outside Blender, turning Blender into a data visualization and exploration tool.</li>
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<p>The workshop will be aimed at people with at least a basic understanding of object-oriented programming, preferably with Python.</p>