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I was trying to create a data visualization with this style in illustrator

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by using these shapes from a chart data

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Obviously you can create this using blend tools and path, however, if it's from a chart or data, it should be as close as possible. I can manually adjust the shape but if its like 100-200 lines, it's going to be time consuming and wouldn't be accurate.

I wonder if there's an easy way.

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  • this really depends on what you consider easy. its really just a for loop which is easy by some measure. another way is to make them strokes (not rectangles) make a brush apply on path expand. Commented Dec 2, 2022 at 5:56
  • @joojaa thanks, but the problem with the brush is that it replicates the group to fit the whole path. Commented Dec 2, 2022 at 7:15

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You could use an Art Brush to do this. You will need to make each line a single stroke though, and you'll need to create an empty spacer at the end of the brush. If you have all the data in a raster image of the graph, you could use Image tracing using the Outline trace option to actually create the lines.

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Anyway, here's an example

A brush like this shown here. I've used a repeating pattern here for the sake of convenience, but you don't have to. Each stroke can be any height.

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Applied to a circle as an Art Brush

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It can also be applied to just part of a circle, here I added some anchors to delete some segments of the circle

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  • thanks! this actually worked! I also tried using different shapes and the shapes didn't duplicate. Commented Dec 2, 2022 at 15:18
  • @christopher essentially the same as i said. Commented Dec 2, 2022 at 16:00

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