The Og Bog Blog

I’m revisiting my old huge anatomy atlas and hope to release the new version soon. Remember this bad boy?

It’s a good use case for Python when geometry nodes only takes you so far. I’m giving everything proper anatomical names, so what about displaying the names? The problem is geometry nodes can’t access an object’s name as an attribute to pass as a string So enter python. First, here’s a geometry nodes setup that makes a label line from instance origin outward for an object at the input index, then makes an input string curve that orients to the camera

Next, Python makes a version of this object for each object you’d want to label (AKA everything in a target collection) and changes the GN string to the name of objects at the given index. Instant labels!