vispy versus mayavi

[Krishna Bhogaonker]

Hey Folks. I was just trying to understand how Vispy fits in with other existing visualization libraries. For example, how does vispy fit in versus mayavi. I tend to do a lot of agent based models and pde simulations, so just trying to compare the costs and benefits of vispy versus mayavi versus other libraries.

Krishna

[Almar Klein]

Hi Krishna,

Mayavi is based on VTK, an old and big library which uses legacy OpenGL
(fixed function pipeline). Mayavi itself is mostly written in C++, and
has trouble attracting contributors. Gael, the lead developer has said
its dying a slow death.

Vispy uses modern opengl and is implemented all the way in Python. It
only relies on one of several backends to provide a window to render in.
This makes Vispy more powerful (we can make use of more advanced
shaders) and flexible. Mayavi and VTK have been around for quite a while
though, so it will take some time for Vispy to match the functionality.

- Almar

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[Big Stone]

Hi,

Vispy last official release is May 22, 2015.
There has been 970 commits since.

Wouldn't it be nice to cut a release ?

[Almar Klein]

+1