Plotting#

These examples show case many of the possibilities for altering how you display spatial data. Explore these examples to learn how to leverage our powerful 3D plotting routines to perform tasks like:

  • Color mapping scalar values with matplotlib colormaps

  • Creating animations as GIFs or movie files

  • Showing the edges and nodes of different mesh types

  • Use sophisticated lighting techniques like smooth shading or Eye Dome Lighting

  • Glyph a vector or scalar field on a mesh (place/orient a mesh on another mesh’s nodes and scale/orient based on data values)

  • Label points in 3D space along side your meshes

  • Creating side-by-side comparisons

  • Making a dataset transparent or using a scalar value to map opacity

  • Adding textures/images draped over a mesh (texture mapping)

  • Rendering a depth image

Anti-Aliasing

Anti-Aliasing

Setting Backface Properties

Setting Backface Properties

Background Image

Background Image

Blurring

Blurring

Plotting Bounds

Plotting Bounds

Chart Basics

Chart Basics

Chart Overlays

Chart Overlays

Clearing a Mesh or the Entire Plot

Clearing a Mesh or the Entire Plot

Colormap Choices

Colormap Choices

Color Cycling

Color Cycling

Composite Picking

Composite Picking

Depth Peeling

Depth Peeling

Depth of Field Plotting

Depth of Field Plotting

Label based on Distance on Line

Label based on Distance on Line

Measuring distance

Measuring distance

Show Edges

Show Edges

Eye Dome Lighting

Eye Dome Lighting

Picking elements of a mesh

Picking elements of a mesh

Plot with Floors

Plot with Floors

Hide Cells with Ghosting

Hide Cells with Ghosting

Create a GIF Movie

Create a GIF Movie

Render a depth image

Render a depth image

Interpolate Before Mapping

Interpolate Before Mapping

Moving Isovalue

Moving Isovalue

Label Points

Label Points

Lighting Properties

Lighting Properties

Linked Views in Subplots

Linked Views in Subplots

Lookup Tables

Lookup Tables

Picking Meshes

Picking Meshes

Create a MP4 Movie

Create a MP4 Movie

Save a Movie Using Glyphs

Save a Movie Using Glyphs

Create a GIF Movie of a Static Object with a Moving Colormap

Create a GIF Movie of a Static Object with a Moving Colormap

Multi-Window Plot

Multi-Window Plot

Plot with Opacity

Plot with Opacity

Orbiting

Orbiting

Orthogonal Slices

Orthogonal Slices

Physically Based Rendering

Physically Based Rendering

Plot Scalars Over a Circular Arc

Plot Scalars Over a Circular Arc

Plot Over Line

Plot Over Line

Point Cell Scalars

Point Cell Scalars

Plotting Point Clouds

Plotting Point Clouds

Picking points on a mesh

Picking points on a mesh

Scaled Gaussian Points

Scaled Gaussian Points

Customize Scalar Bars

Customize Scalar Bars

Saving Screenshots

Saving Screenshots

Types of Shading

Types of Shading

Silhouette Highlight

Silhouette Highlight

Plot data in spherical coordinates

Plot data in spherical coordinates

Surface Space Ambient Occlusion

Surface Space Ambient Occlusion

Picking a Point on the Surface of a Mesh

Picking a Point on the Surface of a Mesh

Applying Textures

Applying Textures

Control Global and Local Plotting Themes

Control Global and Local Plotting Themes

Topographic Map

Topographic Map

Plot Vector Component

Plot Vector Component

Visible Vertices

Visible Vertices

Volume Rendering

Volume Rendering