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Getting Started
Why PyVista?
Authors & Citation
Installation
Connections
External Examples
User Guide
What is a Mesh?
Basic API Usage
PyVista Data Model
Transitioning from VTK to PyVista
Plotting Themes
Jupyter Notebook Plotting
Trame Jupyter Backend for PyVista
Optional Features
Tags
filter (45)
Boolean Operations
Extract Cell Centers
Clipping with a Surface
Clipping with Planes & Boxes
Collision
Computing Surface Normals
Volumetric Analysis
Connectivity
Contouring
Decimation
Distance Between Two Surfaces
Extract Cells Inside Surface
Extract Edges
Extract Surface
Extrude Rotation
Extrude Trim
Marching Cubes
Gaussian Smoothing
Geodesic Paths
Plotting Glyphs (Vectors or PolyData)
Table of Glyphs
Compute Gradients of a Field
Fast Fourier Transform with Perlin Noise
Fast Fourier Transform
Image Data Representations
Integrate Data
Detailed Interpolating Points
Compare interpolation/sampling methods
Computing Mesh Quality
Ray Tracing
Project to a Plane
Reflect Meshes
Detailed Resampling
Rotations
Sample Function: Perlin Noise in 2D
Sample Function: Perlin Noise in 3D
Slicing
Streamlines
2D Streamlines
Subdivide Cells
Surface Smoothing
Surface Reconstruction
Using Common Filters
Voxelize a Surface Mesh
Warping by Vectors
lights (7)
Light Actors
Attenuation
Beam Shape
Light Types
Disabling Mesh Lighting
Plotter Lighting Systems
Shadows
load (28)
Creating an Explicit Structured Grid
Geometric Objects
Create a Kochanek Spline
Parametric Geometric Objects
Pixel Art of ALIEN MONSTERS
Platonic Solids
Create Point Cloud
Create a PointSet
Create PolyData
Triangle Strips
Unstructured Grid with Polyhedra
Creating a Spline
Creating a Structured Surface
Drape 2D Surface From Line
Create Triangulated Surface
Plot Truss-like FEA Solution with Cylinders
Creating a Uniform Grid
Creating an Unstructured Grid
Linear Cells
Working with glTF Files
Working with VRML Files
Read FEniCS/Dolfin Meshes
Load and Plot from a File
Read Image Files
Parallel Files
Load data using a Reader
Terrain Following Mesh
Wrapping Other Objects
plot (57)
Anti-Aliasing
Setting Backface Properties
Background Image
Blurring
Plotting Bounds
Chart Basics
Chart Overlays
Clearing a Mesh or the Entire Plot
Colormap Choices
Color Cycling
Composite Picking
Depth Peeling
Depth of Field Plotting
Label based on Distance on Line
Measuring distance
Show Edges
Eye Dome Lighting
Picking elements of a mesh
Plot with Floors
Hide Cells with Ghosting
Create a GIF Movie
Render a depth image
Interpolate Before Mapping
Moving Isovalue
Label Points
Legends and glyphs
Lighting Properties
Linked Views in Subplots
Lookup Tables
Picking Meshes
Create a MP4 Movie
Save a Movie Using Glyphs
Create a GIF Movie of a Static Object with a Moving Colormap
Multi-Window Plot
Plot with Opacity
Orbiting
Orthogonal Slices
Physically Based Rendering
Plot Scalars Over a Circular Arc
Plot Over Line
Point Cell Scalars
Plotting Point Clouds
Picking points on a mesh
Scaled Gaussian Points
Customize Scalar Bars
Saving Screenshots
Types of Shading
Silhouette Highlight
Plot data in spherical coordinates
Surface Space Ambient Occlusion
Picking a Point on the Surface of a Mesh
Applying Textures
Control Global and Local Plotting Themes
Topographic Map
Plot Vector Component
Visible Vertices
Volume Rendering
widgets (10)
Animation
Box Widget
Checkbox Widget
Clip Volume Widget
Line Widget
Multiple Slider Widgets
Plane Widget
Slider Bar Widget
Sphere Widget
Spline Widget
Examples
Mesh Creation
Creating an Explicit Structured Grid
Geometric Objects
Create a Kochanek Spline
Parametric Geometric Objects
Pixel Art of ALIEN MONSTERS
Platonic Solids
Create Point Cloud
Create a PointSet
Create PolyData
Triangle Strips
Unstructured Grid with Polyhedra
Creating a Spline
Creating a Structured Surface
Drape 2D Surface From Line
Create Triangulated Surface
Plot Truss-like FEA Solution with Cylinders
Creating a Uniform Grid
Creating an Unstructured Grid
Linear Cells
Working with glTF Files
Working with VRML Files
Read FEniCS/Dolfin Meshes
Load and Plot from a File
Read Image Files
Parallel Files
Load data using a Reader
Terrain Following Mesh
Wrapping Other Objects
Filtering
Boolean Operations
Extract Cell Centers
Clipping with a Surface
Clipping with Planes & Boxes
Collision
Computing Surface Normals
Volumetric Analysis
Connectivity
Contouring
Decimation
Distance Between Two Surfaces
Extract Cells Inside Surface
Extract Edges
Extract Surface
Extrude Rotation
Extrude Trim
Marching Cubes
Gaussian Smoothing
Geodesic Paths
Plotting Glyphs (Vectors or PolyData)
Table of Glyphs
Compute Gradients of a Field
Fast Fourier Transform with Perlin Noise
Fast Fourier Transform
Image Data Representations
Integrate Data
Detailed Interpolating Points
Compare interpolation/sampling methods
Computing Mesh Quality
Ray Tracing
Project to a Plane
Reflect Meshes
Detailed Resampling
Rotations
Sample Function: Perlin Noise in 2D
Sample Function: Perlin Noise in 3D
Slicing
Streamlines
2D Streamlines
Subdivide Cells
Surface Smoothing
Surface Reconstruction
Using Common Filters
Voxelize a Surface Mesh
Warping by Vectors
Plotting
Anti-Aliasing
Setting Backface Properties
Background Image
Blurring
Plotting Bounds
Chart Basics
Chart Overlays
Clearing a Mesh or the Entire Plot
Colormap Choices
Color Cycling
Composite Picking
Depth Peeling
Depth of Field Plotting
Label based on Distance on Line
Measuring distance
Show Edges
Eye Dome Lighting
Picking elements of a mesh
Plot with Floors
Hide Cells with Ghosting
Create a GIF Movie
Render a depth image
Interpolate Before Mapping
Moving Isovalue
Label Points
Legends and glyphs
Lighting Properties
Linked Views in Subplots
Lookup Tables
Picking Meshes
Create a MP4 Movie
Save a Movie Using Glyphs
Create a GIF Movie of a Static Object with a Moving Colormap
Multi-Window Plot
Plot with Opacity
Orbiting
Orthogonal Slices
Physically Based Rendering
Plot Scalars Over a Circular Arc
Plot Over Line
Point Cell Scalars
Plotting Point Clouds
Picking points on a mesh
Scaled Gaussian Points
Customize Scalar Bars
Saving Screenshots
Types of Shading
Silhouette Highlight
Plot data in spherical coordinates
Surface Space Ambient Occlusion
Picking a Point on the Surface of a Mesh
Applying Textures
Control Global and Local Plotting Themes
Topographic Map
Plot Vector Component
Visible Vertices
Volume Rendering
Widgets
Animation
Box Widget
Checkbox Widget
Clip Volume Widget
Line Widget
Multiple Slider Widgets
Plane Widget
Slider Bar Widget
Sphere Widget
Spline Widget
Lighting
Light Actors
Attenuation
Beam Shape
Light Types
Disabling Mesh Lighting
Plotter Lighting Systems
Shadows
Common
Project points to a plane and Tessellate
Advanced
Adding a New Gallery Example
Compare Field Across Mesh Regions
Plot Atomic Orbitals
Customize Trame toolbar
Extending PyVista
Visualize Hertzian Contact Stress
Plot a Magnetic Field
Electronics Cooling CFD
Plot OpenFOAM data
Plot CFD Data
3D Earth and Celestial Bodies
Plotting with VTK Algorithms
Visualize Modal Analysis of a Pump Bracket
Visualize the Moeller-Trumbore Algorithm
Turning the sphere inside out
Display Eigenmodes of Vibration
API Reference
Core API
DataObject
Data Sets
Point Sets
Gridded Data
Composite Datasets
Filters
Cameras
Lights
Cells
Helpers
Miscellaneous
Typing
Partitioned Datasets
Validation
Plotting
Plotting
PyVista and PyQt
Themes
Trame
pyvista.Actor
pyvista.Axes
pyvista.AxesActor
pyvista.AxesAssembly
pyvista.AxesAssemblySymmetric
pyvista.CameraPosition
pyvista.CornerAnnotation
pyvista.CubeAxesActor
pyvista.DataSetMapper
pyvista.Label
pyvista.LookupTable
pyvista.PlanesAssembly
pyvista.Plotter
pyvista.Prop3D
pyvista.Property
pyvista.Renderer
pyvista.RenderWindowInteractor
pyvista.Text
pyvista.TextProperty
pyvista.Timer
pyvista.plotting.mapper._BaseMapper
pyvista.plotting.opts.InterpolationType
pyvista.plotting.opts.RepresentationType
pyvista.plotting.opts.ElementType
pyvista.plotting.volume.Volume
pyvista.plotting.volume_property.VolumeProperty
pyvista.CompositePolyDataMapper
pyvista.CompositeAttributes
pyvista.BlockAttributes
Charts
pyvista.plotting.widgets.WidgetHelper
pyvista.plotting.widgets.AffineWidget3D
pyvista.plotting.picking.PickingHelper
Convenience Functions
Utilities
Geometry
Image
Parametric Objects
General Utilities
Readers
pyvista.get_reader
pyvista.AVSucdReader
pyvista.BMPReader
pyvista.BYUReader
pyvista.BinaryMarchingCubesReader
pyvista.CGNSReader
pyvista.DEMReader
pyvista.DICOMReader
pyvista.EnSightReader
pyvista.FacetReader
pyvista.FLUENTCFFReader
pyvista.FluentReader
pyvista.GambitReader
pyvista.GaussianCubeReader
pyvista.GESignaReader
pyvista.GIFReader
pyvista.GLTFReader
pyvista.HDFReader
pyvista.HDRReader
pyvista.JPEGReader
pyvista.MFIXReader
pyvista.MetaImageReader
pyvista.MINCImageReader
pyvista.MultiBlockPlot3DReader
pyvista.NIFTIReader
pyvista.NRRDReader
pyvista.OBJReader
pyvista.OpenFOAMReader
pyvista.ParticleReader
pyvista.PDBReader
pyvista.PLYReader
pyvista.PNGReader
pyvista.PNMReader
pyvista.POpenFOAMReader
pyvista.PTSReader
pyvista.PVDReader
pyvista.Plot3DMetaReader
pyvista.ProStarReader
pyvista.SLCReader
pyvista.STLReader
pyvista.SegYReader
pyvista.TIFFReader
pyvista.TecplotReader
pyvista.VTKDataSetReader
pyvista.VTKPDataSetReader
pyvista.XMLImageDataReader
pyvista.XMLMultiBlockDataReader
pyvista.XMLPImageDataReader
pyvista.XMLPRectilinearGridReader
pyvista.XMLPUnstructuredGridReader
pyvista.XMLPartitionedDataSetReader
pyvista.XMLPolyDataReader
pyvista.XMLRectilinearGridReader
pyvista.XMLStructuredGridReader
pyvista.XMLUnstructuredGridReader
pyvista.XdmfReader
pyvista.BaseReader
pyvista.PointCellDataSelection
pyvista.TimeReader
Reader Enumerations
Examples
Dataset Gallery
pyvista.examples.examples
pyvista.examples.downloads
pyvista.examples.planets
pyvista.examples.vrml
pyvista.examples.download_3ds
pyvista.demos.demos
pyvista.examples.cells.plot_cell
pyvista.examples.cells.Empty
pyvista.examples.cells.Vertex
pyvista.examples.cells.PolyVertex
pyvista.examples.cells.Line
pyvista.examples.cells.PolyLine
pyvista.examples.cells.Triangle
pyvista.examples.cells.TriangleStrip
pyvista.examples.cells.Polygon
pyvista.examples.cells.Pixel
pyvista.examples.cells.Quadrilateral
pyvista.examples.cells.Tetrahedron
pyvista.examples.cells.Voxel
pyvista.examples.cells.Hexahedron
pyvista.examples.cells.Wedge
pyvista.examples.cells.Pyramid
pyvista.examples.cells.PentagonalPrism
pyvista.examples.cells.HexagonalPrism
pyvista.examples.cells.QuadraticEdge
pyvista.examples.cells.QuadraticTriangle
pyvista.examples.cells.QuadraticQuadrilateral
pyvista.examples.cells.QuadraticPolygon
pyvista.examples.cells.QuadraticTetrahedron
pyvista.examples.cells.QuadraticHexahedron
pyvista.examples.cells.QuadraticWedge
pyvista.examples.cells.QuadraticPyramid
pyvista.examples.cells.BiQuadraticQuadrilateral
pyvista.examples.cells.TriQuadraticHexahedron
pyvista.examples.cells.TriQuadraticPyramid
pyvista.examples.cells.QuadraticLinearQuadrilateral
pyvista.examples.cells.QuadraticLinearWedge
pyvista.examples.cells.BiQuadraticQuadraticWedge
pyvista.examples.cells.BiQuadraticQuadraticHexahedron
pyvista.examples.cells.BiQuadraticTriangle
pyvista.examples.cells.CubicLine
Extras
Building VTK
PyVista within a Docker Container
Freezing PyVista with PyInstaller
Contributing
Sphinx PyVista Plot Directive
PyVista pytest Plugin
Using Local VTK-Data
Extending PyVista
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