.. _example_gallery: Example gallery ================= Mlab functions gallery ---------------------- These are the examples of the mlab plotting functions. They are copied out here for convenience. Please refer to the corresponding section of the user guide for more information ( :ref:`mlab_plotting_functions`). .. currentmodule:: mayavi.mlab +------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+ | :func:`plot3d` | :func:`points3d` | :func:`imshow` | | | | | | |plot3d.jpg| | |points3d.jpg| | |imshow.jpg| | +------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+ | :func:`surf` | :func:`contour_surf` | :func:`mesh` | | | | | | |surf.jpg| | |contour_surf.jpg| | |mesh.jpg| | +------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+ | :func:`barchart` | :func:`triangular_mesh` | :func:`contour3d` | | | | | | |barchart.jpg| | |triangular_mesh.jpg| | |contour3d.jpg| | +------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+ | :func:`quiver3d` | :func:`flow` | | | | | | | |quiver3d.jpg| | |flow.jpg| | | +------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+ .. |plot3d.jpg| image:: ../generated_images/enthought_mayavi_mlab_plot3d.jpg :width: 150 .. |points3d.jpg| image:: ../generated_images/enthought_mayavi_mlab_points3d.jpg :width: 150 .. |imshow.jpg| image:: ../generated_images/enthought_mayavi_mlab_imshow.jpg :width: 150 .. |contour_surf.jpg| image:: ../generated_images/enthought_mayavi_mlab_contour_surf.jpg :width: 150 .. |triangular_mesh.jpg| image:: ../generated_images/enthought_mayavi_mlab_triangular_mesh.jpg :width: 150 .. |surf.jpg| image:: ../generated_images/enthought_mayavi_mlab_surf.jpg :width: 150 .. |mesh.jpg| image:: ../generated_images/enthought_mayavi_mlab_mesh.jpg :width: 150 .. |barchart.jpg| image:: ../generated_images/enthought_mayavi_mlab_barchart.jpg :width: 150 .. |contour3d.jpg| image:: ../generated_images/enthought_mayavi_mlab_contour3d.jpg :width: 150 .. |quiver3d.jpg| image:: ../generated_images/enthought_mayavi_mlab_quiver3d.jpg :width: 150 .. |flow.jpg| image:: ../generated_images/enthought_mayavi_mlab_flow.jpg :width: 150 Advanced mlab examples ----------------------- .. toctree:: :hidden: example_julia_set.rst example_boy.rst example_bunny.rst example_dragon.rst example_lucy.rst example_custom_colormap.rst example_surface_from_irregular_data.rst example_spherical_harmonics.rst example_lorenz.rst example_canyon.rst example_julia_set_decimation.rst example_simple_structured_grid.rst example_atomic_orbital.rst example_tvtk_in_mayavi.rst example_chemistry.rst example_wigner.rst example_canyon_decimation.rst example_plotting_many_lines.rst example_magnetic_field_lines.rst example_mri.rst example_protein.rst example_flight_graph.rst .. |0000| image:: ../generated_images/example_julia_set.jpg :width: 150 .. |0001| image:: ../generated_images/example_boy.jpg :width: 150 .. |0002| raw:: html
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:width: 150 .. |0018| image:: ../generated_images/example_magnetic_field_lines.jpg :width: 150 .. |0019| image:: ../generated_images/example_mri.jpg :width: 150 .. |0020| image:: ../generated_images/example_protein.jpg :width: 150 .. |0021| image:: ../generated_images/example_flight_graph.jpg :width: 150 ======= ============================================= ======= ============================================= |0000| :ref:`example_julia_set` An example showing the Julia set displayed as a z-warped surface. |0001| :ref:`example_boy` A script to generate the Mayavi logo: a Boy surface. |0002| :ref:`example_bunny` Viewing Stanford 3D Scanning Repository bunny model |0003| :ref:`example_dragon` Viewing Stanford 3D Scanning Repository dragon model |0004| :ref:`example_lucy` Viewing Stanford 3D Scanning Repository lucy model |0005| :ref:`example_custom_colormap` An example showing how a custom colormap (or look up table) can be used for a given object. |0006| :ref:`example_surface_from_irregular_data` An example which shows how to plot a surface from data acquired irregularly. |0007| :ref:`example_spherical_harmonics` Plot spherical harmonics on the surface of the sphere, as well as a 3D polar plot. |0008| :ref:`example_lorenz` An example displaying the trajectories for the Lorenz system of equations along with the z-nullcline. |0009| :ref:`example_canyon` Retrieve radar data from the NASA and plot a view of the Grand Canyon landscape. |0010| :ref:`example_julia_set_decimation` The Julia set, but with a decimated mesh: unnecessary triangles due to the initial grid and not matching the geometry of the Julia set are removed. |0011| :ref:`example_simple_structured_grid` An example creating a structured grid data set from numpy arrays using TVTK and visualizing it using mlab. |0012| :ref:`example_atomic_orbital` An example showing the norm and phase of an atomic orbital: isosurfaces of the norm, with colors displaying the phase. |0013| :ref:`example_tvtk_in_mayavi` An example of pure TVTK programming to build TVTK objects, which are then added to a Mayavi scene. |0014| :ref:`example_chemistry` In this example, we display the H2O molecule, and use volume rendering to display the electron localization function. |0015| :ref:`example_wigner` An example in which 3 functions of x and y are displayed with a surf plot, while the z scaling is kept constant, to allow comparison between them. |0016| :ref:`example_canyon_decimation` Use the greedy-terrain-decimator to display a decimated terrain view. |0017| :ref:`example_plotting_many_lines` This examples shows how many lines can be grouped together in a single object, for convenience and efficiency. |0018| :ref:`example_magnetic_field_lines` This example uses the streamline module to display field lines of a magnetic dipole (a current loop). |0019| :ref:`example_mri` Viewing MRI data with cut plane and iso surface. |0020| :ref:`example_protein` Visualize a protein graph structure downloaded from the protein database in standard pdb format. |0021| :ref:`example_flight_graph` An example showing a graph display between cities positioned on the Earth surface. ======= ============================================= Interactive examples -------------------------------------------------- Examples showing how to use the interactive features of Mayavi, either via the mayavi2 application, or via specially-crafted dialogs and applications. .. toctree:: :hidden: example_mlab_visual.rst example_mlab_traits_ui.rst example_wx_embedding.rst example_multiple_engines.rst example_multiple_mlab_scene_models.rst example_superquad_with_gui.rst example_mlab_interactive_dialog.rst example_wx_mayavi_embed_in_notebook.rst example_subclassing_mayavi_application.rst example_mayavi_traits_ui.rst example_compute_in_thread.rst example_qt_embedding.rst example_adjust_cropping_extents.rst example_poll_file.rst example_lorenz_ui.rst example_volume_slicer.rst 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======= ============================================= ======= ============================================= |0100| :ref:`example_mlab_visual` A very simple example to show how you can use TVTK's visual module with mlab and create simple animations. |0101| :ref:`example_mlab_traits_ui` A simple example of how to use mayavi.mlab inside a traits UI dialog. |0102| :ref:`example_wx_embedding` This example shows to embed a Mayavi view in a wx frame. |0103| :ref:`example_multiple_engines` An example to show how you can have multiple engines in one application. |0104| :ref:`example_multiple_mlab_scene_models` Example showing a dialog with multiple embedded scenes. |0105| :ref:`example_superquad_with_gui` This example uses MayaVi to show the evolution of a superquadric (http://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/Superquadrics), which are ellipsoidal surfaces parametrised by two parameters,lpha and eta. The equations that are used to determine the superquadric are (in spherical-polar coordinates): |0106| :ref:`example_mlab_interactive_dialog` An example of how to modify the data visualized via an interactive dialog. |0107| :ref:`example_wx_mayavi_embed_in_notebook` This example show how to embedded Mayavi in a wx notebook. |0108| :ref:`example_subclassing_mayavi_application` This script demonstrates how one can script the Mayavi application by subclassing the application, create a new scene and create a few simple modules. |0109| :ref:`example_mayavi_traits_ui` An example of how to create a UI similar to the complete Mayavi application inside a Traits UI view. |0110| :ref:`example_compute_in_thread` This script demonstrates how one can do a computation in another thread and update the mayavi pipeline. It also shows how to create a numpy array data and visualize it as image data using a few modules. |0111| :ref:`example_qt_embedding` This example demonstrates using Mayavi as a component of a large Qt application. |0112| :ref:`example_adjust_cropping_extents` A custom dialog to adjust the parameters of a GeometryFilter to crop data points. |0113| :ref:`example_poll_file` A simple script that polls a data file for changes and then updates the mayavi pipeline automatically. |0114| :ref:`example_lorenz_ui` This example displays the trajectories for the Lorenz system of equations using mlab along with the z-nullcline. It provides a simple UI where a user can change the parameters and the system of equations on the fly. This primarily demonstrates how one can build powerful tools with a UI using Traits and Mayavi. |0115| :ref:`example_volume_slicer` Example of an elaborate dialog showing a multiple views on the same data, with 3 cuts synchronized. |0116| :ref:`example_coil_design_application` An full-blown application demoing a domain-specific usecase with Mayavi: interactive design of coils. |0117| :ref:`example_volume_slicer_advanced` An efficient implementation of the triple-plane view showing 3 cut planes on volumetric data, and side views showing each cut, with a cursor to move the other cuts. ======= ============================================= Advanced visualization examples -------------------------------------------------- Data visualization using the core Mayavi API, object-oriented, and with more fine control than mlab. .. toctree:: :hidden: example_polydata.rst example_offscreen.rst example_surf_regular_mlab.rst example_glyph.rst example_structured_points2d.rst example_contour_contour.rst example_scatter_plot.rst example_streamline.rst example_numeric_source.rst example_structured_points3d.rst example_image_cursor_filter.rst example_contour.rst example_probe_filter.rst example_unstructured_grid.rst example_structured_grid.rst example_tvtk_segmentation.rst example_datasets.rst example_delaunay_graph.rst example_mlab_3D_to_2D.rst example_magnetic_field.rst .. A comment to split paragraphs * :ref:`example_polydata` An example of how to generate a polydata dataset using numpy arrays. * :ref:`example_offscreen` A simple example of how you can use Mayavi without using Envisage or the Mayavi Envisage application and do off screen rendering. * :ref:`example_surf_regular_mlab` Shows how to view data created by `tvtk.tools.mlab` with mayavi2. * :ref:`example_glyph` This script demonstrates using the Mayavi core API to add a VectorCutPlane, split the pipeline using a MaskPoints filter and then view the filtered data with the Glyph module. * :ref:`example_structured_points2d` An example of how to generate a 2D structured points dataset using numpy arrays. Also shown is a way to visualize this data with the mayavi2 application. * :ref:`example_contour_contour` This example shows how you can produce contours on an IsoSurface. * :ref:`example_scatter_plot` An example of plotting scatter points with Mayavi's core API. * :ref:`example_streamline` This script demonstrates how one can script Mayavi's core API to display streamlines and an iso surface. * :ref:`example_numeric_source` This script demonstrates how to create a numpy array data and visualize it as image data using a few modules. * :ref:`example_structured_points3d` An example of how to generate a 3D structured points dataset using numpy arrays. Also shown is a way to visualize this data with the mayavi2 application. * :ref:`example_image_cursor_filter` Excample using the UserDefined filter to paint a cross-shaped cursor on data, in order to point out a special position. * :ref:`example_contour` This script demonstrates how one can script Mayavi and use its contour related modules. * :ref:`example_probe_filter` Using the probe filter to visualize a scalar field along an arbitrary surface. * :ref:`example_unstructured_grid` A MayaVi example of how to generate an unstructured grid dataset using numpy arrays. Also shown is a way to visualize this data with mayavi2. The script can be run like so: * :ref:`example_structured_grid` An example of how to generate a structured grid dataset using numpy arrays. Also shown is a way to visualize this data with the mayavi2 application. * :ref:`example_tvtk_segmentation` Using VTK to assemble a pipeline for segmenting MRI images. This example shows how to insert well-controled custom VTK filters in Mayavi. * :ref:`example_datasets` A Mayavi example to show the different data sets. See :ref:`data-structures-used-by-mayavi` for a discussion. * :ref:`example_delaunay_graph` An example illustrating graph manipulation and display with Mayavi and NetworkX. * :ref:`example_mlab_3D_to_2D` A script to calculate the projection of 3D world coordinates to 2D display coordinates (pixel coordinates) for a given scene. * :ref:`example_magnetic_field` An example mixing numerical caculation and 3D visualization of the magnetic field created by an arbitrary number of current loops. Data interaction examples -------------------------------------------------- Examples showing how you can query and interact with the data. .. toctree:: :hidden: example_pick_on_surface.rst example_select_red_balls.rst .. A comment to split paragraphs * :ref:`example_pick_on_surface` Example showing how to pick data on a surface, going all the way back to the index in the numpy arrays. * :ref:`example_select_red_balls` This example shows how to use a callback to select a red ball amongst white balls. Misc examples -------------------------------------------------- .. toctree:: :hidden: example_standalone.rst example_zzz_reader.rst example_nongui.rst example_user_mayavi.rst .. A comment to split paragraphs * :ref:`example_standalone` A simple example of how you can use Mayavi without using Envisage or the Mayavi Envisage application. * :ref:`example_zzz_reader` This is a simple example that shows how to create a reader factory and register that reader with mayavi. * :ref:`example_nongui` This script demonstrates how one can use the Mayavi application framework without displaying Mayavi's UI. * :ref:`example_user_mayavi` Sample Mayavi customization file.