Mayavi User Guide¶
Mayavi is a Python application and library for interactive scientific data visualization and 3D plotting in Python.
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Getting started
- You want to use an interactive application to visualize your data? Read the Mayavi application section.
- You know Python and want to use Mayavi as a Matlab or pylab replacement for 3D plotting and data visualization with numpy? Get started with the mlab section.
- Sources of inspiration may be found in the Example gallery, with example code.
Full table of contents
- An overview of Mayavi
- Installation
- Using the Mayavi application
- mlab: Python scripting for 3D plotting
- Advanced use of Mayavi
- Building applications using Mayavi
- Tips and Tricks
- Off screen rendering
- Extending Mayavi with customizations
- Customizing Mayavi2
- Scripting Mayavi without using Envisage
- Computing in a thread
- Polling a file and auto-updating Mayavi
- Serving Mayavi on the network
- Animating a visualization
- Scripting from the command line
- Texture mapping actors
- Shifting data and plotting
- Using the UserDefined filter
- Sharing the same data between scenes
- Changing the interaction with a scene
- Accelerating a Mayavi script
- Miscellaneous
- Example gallery
- Mlab functions gallery
- Advanced mlab examples
- Boy example
- Julia set example
- Custom colormap example
- Surface from irregular data example
- Spherical harmonics example
- Canyon example
- Lorenz example
- Tvtk in mayavi example
- Julia set decimation example
- Simple structured grid example
- Atomic orbital example
- Chemistry example
- Wigner example
- Canyon decimation example
- Plotting many lines example
- Magnetic field lines example
- Mri example
- Protein example
- Flight graph example
- Interactive examples
- Mlab visual example
- Mlab traits ui example
- Wx embedding example
- Multiple engines example
- Multiple mlab scene models example
- Mlab interactive dialog example
- Wx mayavi embed in notebook example
- Subclassing mayavi application example
- Qt embedding example
- Mayavi traits ui example
- Compute in thread example
- Poll file example
- Lorenz ui example
- Volume slicer example
- Coil design application example
- Volume slicer advanced example
- Advanced visualization examples
- Polydata example
- Offscreen example
- Surf regular mlab example
- Glyph example
- Structured points2d example
- Contour contour example
- Scatter plot example
- Structured points3d example
- Streamline example
- Numeric source example
- Image cursor filter example
- Contour example
- Unstructured grid example
- Structured grid example
- Tvtk segmentation example
- Datasets example
- Delaunay graph example
- Mlab 3D to 2D example
- Magnetic field example
- Misc examples
- MLab reference
- Mayavi API reference
- Known bugs and issues
- Changelog
