Tetrahedron

Tetrahedron(

radius: float = 1.0,

center: VectorLike[float] = (0.0, 0.0, 0.0),

) → PolyData

Create a tetrahedron of a given size.

A tetrahedron is composed of four congruent equilateral triangles.

Parameters:

radiusfloat, default: 1.0

The radius of the circumscribed sphere for the tetrahedron.

centersequence[float], default: (0.0, 0.0, 0.0)

Three-length sequence defining the center of the tetrahedron.

Returns:

pyvista.PolyData

Mesh for the tetrahedron. Cell scalars are defined that assign integer labels to each face (with array name "FaceIndex").

Examples

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Create and plot a tetrahedron.

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> tetra = pv.Tetrahedron()
>>> tetra.plot(categories=True)

Static Scene

Interactive Scene

See Platonic Solids for more examples using this filter.