This is Microsoft SandDance. originally a closed-source project that was later open-sourced. It lets you visually explore and understand data with smooth, animated transitions between multiple views.

Nov 3, 2025 · 4:55 PM UTC

MorphCharts also includes a raytraced renderer, capable of producing some stunning visualization effects. However, real-time animations aren't practical with the raytraced renderer on typical GPUs.
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I was planning to share some of my own demos, but since there's very little documentation available, I decided to hold off for now. Still, wanted to share this in case anyone else finds it interesting!
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There is an exactly 10/10 chance I’m including this in everything I now build, no matter how unnecessary
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haha.. that's the spirit, the best ideas usually start with a bit of "unnecessary"
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That’s actually one of the coolest underrated Microsoft projects ever — feels like data visualization got its own dance floor! 💃📊
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Looks cool. Open Source is the best feature. I'm 35 year Linux guy but I might fiddle with it
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Awesome! When I first got into programming, I really thought we’d end up with separate Linux distros for stuff like data visualization, gaming, and robotics, and so on, and yet, here we are🙂
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They were doing this with engineers paid millions... Makes me wanna start a tech giant myself
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Haha, you should! It's absolutely worth giving it a shot
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That’s extremely useful. We could upgrade our digital land registry UI with these visualisations!
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Thanks! That's exactly why I wanted to share it. I'd love to see more interfaces explore these kinds of visualizations.
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Come on @cvaneenige where's your roast of the colour scheme?
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Microsoft SandDance is a brilliant example of how open-sourcing transforms static analytics into interactive reasoning. By enabling fluid transitions between scatter plots, bar charts, and 3D spatial views, it humanizes data exploration—turning abstract numbers into narrative motion. Its design philosophy reflects a deeper shift in visualization: from showing data to revealing relationships. In an era of AI-driven analytics, interpretability and visual intuition remain our most powerful cognitive tools.
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Eu acho que vc vai precisar de alguns desses gráficos coloridos no futuro próximo para explicar trajetória de dívida @WeiseFranklin
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Because ChartJunk was too obvious a product name.
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I am RichardKCollin2, The Internet Foundation (for Grok context) What is the average cost in dollars for a computer, networks services, and software that can handle this software smoothly? What is the cost in time and training to learn the prerequisites and to set up this visualization toolset? Can this tool read all data formats and produce all data formats? Can it handle Terabyte and Petabyte files and tens of thousands of domain specific languages and environments? Most of the 5600 Million Internet users do not have computers and training to use this package. Then there are 2.6 Billion who are not on the Internet and many without computers or phones or training. I suspect most of the people who could use this without months of effort, also know many alternative solutions. If it is a Microsoft throw-away, they will likely see if a community develops and then buy it out or make their own. Taking closed source materials and making them open is often much more costly and "strings attached", than to simply do the whole from first principles --- starting with what people use now and what it it that is needed for all humans. I doubt they share the outputs (all those screen displayed data views) in open format for further analysis and sharing globally on the Internet. It is not whether one person can use something like this, but whether it enables small and large groups to share and collaborate losslessly and efficiently as distributed effort groups - on global or systemic efforts. x.com/i/grok/share/WKBFW252z…

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fancy data visualization tools are cool until you realize you still dont understand what the data means. spent an hour making a beautiful chart once. my boss asked what it showed. i had no idea. just looked pretty
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Nice to see a project go from closed to open, it’s like giving data a breath of fresh air. Smooth transitions are always a plus!
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Thank you
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At least it is beautiful 😍
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Open source data viz tools like this are game changers for exploratory analysis
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Sexy but useless
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I don't know what it is, but they love making this product again and again. Here it is back in 2010: piped.video/watch?v=8Aey3xm0… It's like Google's chat apps. They just can't help themselves. There's a PM buried deep in there somewhere who just can't stop.
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Is it possible to import/insert it on Power BI?