Render a depth image#

Plot a depth image as viewed from a camera overlooking the “hills” example mesh.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

import pyvista as pv
from pyvista import examples

# Load an interesting example of geometry
mesh = examples.load_random_hills()

# Establish geometry within a pv.Plotter()
p = pv.Plotter()
p.add_mesh(mesh, color=True)
p.show()
image depth

Record depth image without and with a custom fill value

zval = p.get_image_depth()
zval_filled_by_42s = p.get_image_depth(fill_value=42.0)

Visualize depth images

plt.figure()
plt.imshow(zval)
plt.colorbar(label='Distance to Camera')
plt.title('Depth image')
plt.xlabel('X Pixel')
plt.ylabel('Y Pixel')
plt.show()
Depth image
plt.figure()
plt.imshow(zval_filled_by_42s)
plt.title('Depth image (custom fill_value)')
plt.colorbar(label='Distance to Camera')
plt.xlabel('X Pixel')
plt.ylabel('Y Pixel')
plt.show()
Depth image (custom fill_value)

Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.599 seconds)

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