Okaya little background here. I made a script that plots a dataset as 3d line plots using mlab.plot3d(), multiple times in Mayavi, after reading it from an xlsx file.Now, I am trying to make a web app to see the created 3d models in a web browser interactively.After some search, I found xtk and thought about saving the Mayavi output as a .vtk file, and viewing it online using xtk.
If you have installed mayavi, then you'll have included the tvtk python library, which is one of its dependencies. The documentation gives some examples how you can write your structures to a vtk file using the write_data function.
an (optional) rich user interface with dialogs to interact with all dataand objects in the visualization.a simple and clean scripting interface in Python, including one-liners,a-la mlab, or object-oriented programming interface.harnesses the power of the VTK toolkit without forcing you to learn it.Additionally Mayavi strives to be a reusable tool that can be embedded in yourapplications in different ways or combined with the envisageapplication-building framework to assemble domain-specific tools.
Visualization of scalar, vector and tensor data in 2 and 3 dimensionsEasy scriptability using PythonEasy extendability via custom sources, modules, and data filtersReading several file formats: VTK (legacy and XML), PLOT3D, etc.Saving of visualizationsSaving rendered visualization in a variety of image formatsConvenient functionality for rapid scientific plotting via mlab (see mlabdocumentation)See the Mayavi Users Guide for more information.Unlike its predecessor MayaVi1, Mayavi has been designed with scriptabilityand extensibility in mind from the ground up. While the mayavi2 applicationis usable by itself, it may be used as an Envisage plugin which allows it tobe embedded in user applications natively. Alternatively, it may be used as avisualization engine for any application.
By itself Mayavi is not a difficult package to install but its dependenciesare unfortunately rather heavy. However, many of these dependencies are nowavailable as wheels on PyPI. The two critical dependencies are,
VTKA GUI toolkit, either PyQt4, PySide, PySide2, PyQt5 or wxPython.The latest VTK wheels are available on all the major platforms (Windows,MacOS, and Linux), but only for 64 bit machines. Python 3.x is fully supportedon all these operating systems and Python 2.7.x on MacOS and Linux. If you areout of luck, and your platform is not supported then you will need to installVTK yourself using your particular distribution as discussed in the GeneralBuild and Installation instructions
On Python 3.x you will need to install PyQt5 and wheels are available forthis. On 2.7.x you have more options, and can use PySide, PyQt4, andwxPython. These can be installed from pip or from your package manager.
Currently, Mayavi itself should work with the new wxPython 4.x. However,traitsui, pyface, and other ETS packages do not yet support it so the UIwill not work correctly. Older versions should work. PyQt/PySide/PySide2should work largely out of the box.
If you are interested in the jupyter notebook support as well, do thefollowing (after ensuring that you have jupyter installed of course.Note, the Jupyter notebook function is only supported starting mayaviversion 4.5.0):
More documentation is available in the online user manual or in docsdirectory of the sources. This includes a man page for the mayavi2application, a users guide in HTML and PDF format and documentation formlab.
If you have questions you could ask on the Mayavi-users mailing list. This is used bysome folks and is not too active. Another mailing list that may be of use isthe ETS Users mailing list. This is a more generallist where a lot of folks experienced with the Enthought Tool Suite areavailable.
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So I'm experimenting with some 3d plots. I can create an interactive plot in Sage with plot3d, but the options are limited. I can create a 3d plot with more control using matplotlib inside Jupyter, except that the resulting plot is not interactive - I can't pan, zoom, or rotate to find the best view of the plot. So what I need is some plotting functionality which has the control of matplotlib, and the interactivity of plot3d. I understand that something similar can be obtained with Mayavi, but this is not part of SageMathCloud Jupyter. And I want to do this online so I can share it with a co-worker. Advice, as usual , would be appreciated!
hi, those two plotting capabilities are entirely different. one of them is a 3d rendering, which happens based on a triangulated grid and lightning in your browser. the other one is a projected drawing, which has much higher quality but there is no lightning nor such a 3d wireframe.
the only middle ground is to use either interacts (in sagews) or ipywidgets (in jupyter) to create control sliders for changing the pan and tilt of the 3d projection of the matplotlib 3d plotting parameters.
and personal remark: what exactly do you want to try to plot? I'm not a fan of 3d plots at all and would rather suggest to explore techniques from 2d plotting. maybe that does solve this better, I don't know.
I'm trying to plot some differences of functions related to inequalities - this is part of some research I've been invited to join by contributing some numeric tests, and plotting. We are plotting functions of three variables - each a difference of two other functions - holding one variable fixed and plotting against the other two. Much of the mathematics is new to me (Specht's ratio?), so I'm just trying to plot some 3d graphs. I'm leaving it to the lead researcher to make sense of them.
I have been able to get nice interactive plots with Sage (as per your worksheet), and with Python+Mayavi. I haven't tried Matlab or Octave yet. The main trouble with Sage is the lack of control of 3d plots: axes labels and precise ranges of colors, for example.
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We present Visbrain, a Python open-source package that offers a comprehensive visualization suite for neuroimaging and electrophysiological brain data. Visbrain consists of two levels of abstraction: (1) objects which represent highly configurable neuro-oriented visual primitives (3D brain, sources connectivity, etc.) and (2) graphical user interfaces for higher level interactions. The object level offers flexible and modular tools to produce and automate the production of figures using an approach similar to that of Matplotlib with subplots. The second level visually connects these objects by controlling properties and interactions through graphical interfaces. The current release of Visbrain (version 0.4.2) contains 14 different objects and three responsive graphical user interfaces, built with PyQt: Signal, for the inspection of time-series and spectral properties, Brain for any type of visualization involving a 3D brain and Sleep for polysomnographic data visualization and sleep analysis. Each module has been developed in tight collaboration with end-users, i.e., primarily neuroscientists and domain experts, who bring their experience to make Visbrain as transparent as possible to the recording modalities (e.g., intracranial EEG, scalp-EEG, MEG, anatomical and functional MRI). Visbrain is developed on top of VisPy, a Python package providing high-performance 2D and 3D visualization by leveraging the computational power of the graphics card. Visbrain is available on Github and comes with a documentation, examples, and datasets ( ).
To date, Matlab (Mathworks, 2012) is one of the most widely-used commercial programming language for brain data analysis and visualization, thanks to a large number of toolboxes such as SPM (Penny et al., 2011), Brainstorm1 (Tadel et al., 2011), EEGlab2 (Delorme and Makeig, 2004) and Fieldtrip3 (Oostenveld et al., 2011). Alternative visualization solutions that run on non-commercial open-source programming environments, such as Python, are rare. These include high-quality packages such as MNE4 (Gramfort et al., 2013), PySurfer5, Nilearn6 (Abraham et al., 2014) or 3d slicer (Fedorov et al., 2012). Both MNE and Nilearn rely on Matplotlib for visualizations which is not suited for real-time interactions of brain imaging data involving thousands of data points. In addition, MNE also relies on PySurfer for 3D visualizations. PySurfer is built on top of Mayavi which contains a powerful rendering engine and allows smooth interactions. However, some issues have been reported when installing Mayavi, (which uses VTK), which may affect its user-friendliness.
In this context, we propose a Python open-source software called Visbrain, distributed under a Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license and dedicated to the visualization of neuroscientific data. Visbrain is built on top of VisPy (Campagnola et al., 2015), a high-performance visualization library that leverages the Graphics Processing Units (GPU). As a result, Visbrain efficiently handles the visualization of large and complex multi-dimensional datasets. The purpose of Visbrain is two-fold: (1) To provide within a common framework several Python-based visualization tools for neuroscientific data, (2) To allow users, including those with little or no programming skills access to high-end visualization functions, through a comprehensive documentation7 and a user-friendly API.
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