vispy.scene.visuals module

The classes in scene.visuals are visuals that may be added to a scenegraph using the methods and properties defined in vispy.scene.Node such as name, visible, parent, children, etc…

These classes are automatically generated by mixing vispy.scene.Node with the Visual classes found in vispy.visuals.

For developing custom visuals, it is recommended to subclass from vispy.visuals.Visual rather than vispy.scene.Node.

class vispy.scene.visuals.Arrow(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.line.arrow.ArrowVisual

Arrow visual

This class inherits from visuals.ArrowVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

A special line visual which can also draw optional arrow heads at the specified vertices.

You add an arrow head by specifying two vertices v1 and v2 which represent the arrow body. This visual will draw an arrow head using v2 as center point, and the orientation of the arrow head is automatically determined by calculating the direction vector between v1 and v2.

Parameters

posarray

Array of shape (…, 2) or (…, 3) specifying vertex coordinates.

colorColor, tuple, or array

The color to use when drawing the line. If an array is given, it must be of shape (…, 4) and provide one rgba color per vertex. Can also be a colormap name, or appropriate Function.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

width:

The width of the line in px. Line widths > 1px are only guaranteed to work when using ‘agg’ method.

connectstr or array

Determines which vertices are connected by lines.

• “strip” causes the line to be drawn with each vertex connected to the next.

• “segments” causes each pair of vertices to draw an independent line segment

• numpy arrays specify the exact set of segment pairs to connect.

methodstr

Mode to use for drawing.

• “agg” uses anti-grain geometry to draw nicely antialiased lines with proper joins and endcaps.

• “gl” uses OpenGL’s built-in line rendering. This is much faster, but produces much lower-quality results and is not guaranteed to obey the requested line width or join/endcap styles.

antialiasbool

Enables or disables antialiasing. For method=’gl’, this specifies whether to use GL’s line smoothing, which may be unavailable or inconsistent on some platforms.

arrowsarray

A (N, 4) or (N, 6) matrix where each row contains the (x, y) or the (x, y, z) coordinate of the first and second vertex of the arrow body. Remember that the second vertex is used as center point for the arrow head, and the first vertex is only used for determining the arrow head orientation.

arrow_typestring

Specify the arrow head type, the currently available arrow head types are:

• stealth

• curved

• triangle_30

• triangle_60

• triangle_90

• angle_30

• angle_60

• angle_90

• inhibitor_round

arrow_sizefloat

Specify the arrow size

arrow_colorColor, tuple, or array

The arrow head color. If an array is given, it must be of shape (…, 4) and provide one rgba color per arrow head. Can also be a colormap name, or appropriate Function.

class vispy.scene.visuals.Axis(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.axis.AxisVisual

Axis visual

This class inherits from visuals.AxisVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

posarray

Co-ordinates of start and end of the axis.

domaintuple

The data values at the beginning and end of the axis, used for tick labels. i.e. (5, 10) means the axis starts at 5 and ends at 10. Default is (0, 1).

tick_directionarray

The tick direction to use (in document coordinates).

scale_typestr

The type of scale. For now only ‘linear’ is supported.

axis_colortuple

RGBA values for the axis colour. Default is black.

tick_colortuple

RGBA values for the tick colours. The colour for the major and minor ticks is currently fixed to be the same. Default is a dark grey.

text_colorColor

The color to use for drawing tick and axis labels

minor_tick_lengthfloat

The length of minor ticks, in pixels

major_tick_lengthfloat

The length of major ticks, in pixels

tick_widthfloat

Line width for the ticks

tick_label_marginfloat

Margin between ticks and tick labels

tick_font_sizefloat

The font size to use for rendering tick labels.

axis_widthfloat

Line width for the axis

axis_labelstr

Text to use for the axis label

axis_label_marginfloat

Margin between ticks and axis labels

axis_font_sizefloat

The font size to use for rendering axis labels.

font_sizefloat

Font size for both the tick and axis labels. If this is set, tick_font_size and axis_font_size are ignored.

anchorsiterable

A 2-element iterable (tuple, list, etc.) giving the horizontal and vertical alignment of the tick labels. The first element should be one of ‘left’, ‘center’, or ‘right’, and the second element should be one of ‘bottom’, ‘middle’, or ‘top’. If this is not specified, it is determined automatically.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.Box(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.box.BoxVisual

Visual that displays a box.

This class inherits from visuals.BoxVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

widthfloat

Box width.

heightfloat

Box height.

depthfloat

Box depth.

width_segmentsint

Box segments count along the width.

height_segmentsfloat

Box segments count along the height.

depth_segmentsfloat

Box segments count along the depth.

planes: array_like

Any combination of {'-x', '+x', '-y', '+y', '-z', '+z'} Included planes in the box construction.

vertex_colorsndarray

Same as for MeshVisual class. See create_plane for vertex ordering.

face_colorsndarray

Same as for MeshVisual class. See create_plane for vertex ordering.

colorColor

The Color to use when drawing the cube faces.

edge_colortuple or Color

The Color to use when drawing the cube edges. If None, then no cube edges are drawn.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.ColorBar(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.colorbar.ColorBarVisual

Visual subclass displaying a colorbar

This class inherits from visuals.ColorBarVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

cmapstr | vispy.color.ColorMap

Either the name of the ColorMap to be used from the standard set of names (refer to vispy.color.get_colormap), or a custom ColorMap object. The ColorMap is used to apply a gradient on the colorbar.

orientation{‘left’, ‘right’, ‘top’, ‘bottom’}

The orientation of the colorbar, used for rendering. The orientation can be thought of as the position of the label relative to the color bar.

When the orientation is ‘left’ or ‘right’, the colorbar is vertically placed. When it is ‘top’ or ‘bottom’, the colorbar is horizontally placed.

• ‘top’: the colorbar is horizontal. Color is applied from left to right. Minimum corresponds to left and maximum to right. Label is to the top of the colorbar

• ‘bottom’: Same as top, except that label is to the bottom of the colorbar

• ‘left’: the colorbar is vertical. Color is applied from bottom to top. Minimum corresponds to bottom and maximum to top. Label is to the left of the colorbar

• ‘right’: Same as left, except that the label is placed to the right of the colorbar

size(major_axis_length, minor_axis_length)

lengths with respect to the major and minor axes. The minor axis is the shorter axis, while the major axis is the longer axis with respect to the orientation

For orientations ‘top’ and ‘bottom’, the major axis is along the length.

For orientations ‘left’ and ‘right’, the major axis is along the breadth

postuple (x, y)

Position where the colorbar is to be placed with respect to the center of the colorbar

label_strstr

The label that is to be drawn with the colorbar that provides information about the colorbar.

label_colorstr | vispy.color.Color

The color of the labels. This can either be a str as the color’s name or an actual instace of a vipy.color.Color

climtuple (min, max)

the minimum and maximum values of the data that is given to the colorbar. This is used to draw the scale on the side of the colorbar.

border_widthfloat (in px)

The width of the border the colormap should have. This measurement is given in pixels

border_colorstr | vispy.color.Color

The color of the border of the colormap. This can either be a str as the color’s name or an actual instace of a vipy.color.Color

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.Compound(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.visual.CompoundVisual

Visual consisting entirely of sub-visuals.

This class inherits from visuals.CompoundVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

To the user, a compound visual behaves exactly like a normal visual–it has a transform system, draw() and bounds() methods, etc. Internally, the compound visual automatically manages proxying these transforms and methods to its sub-visuals.

Parameters

subvisualslist of BaseVisual instances

The list of visuals to be combined in this compound visual.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.Cube(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.cube.CubeVisual

Visual that displays a cube or cuboid

This class inherits from visuals.CubeVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

sizefloat or tuple

The size of the cuboid. A float gives a cube, whereas tuples may specify the size of each axis (x, y, z) independently.

vertex_colorsndarray

Same as for MeshVisual class. See create_cube for vertex ordering.

face_colorsndarray

Same as for MeshVisual class. See create_cube for vertex ordering.

colorColor

The Color to use when drawing the cube faces.

edge_colortuple or Color

The Color to use when drawing the cube edges. If None, then no cube edges are drawn.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.Ellipse(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.ellipse.EllipseVisual

Displays a 2D ellipse

This class inherits from visuals.EllipseVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

centerarray

Center of the ellipse

colorinstance of Color

The face color to use.

border_colorinstance of Color

The border color to use.

border_width: float

The width of the border in pixels Line widths > 1px are only guaranteed to work when using border_method=’agg’ method.

radiusfloat | tuple

Radius or radii of the ellipse Defaults to (0.1, 0.1)

start_anglefloat

Start angle of the ellipse in degrees Defaults to 0.

span_anglefloat

Span angle of the ellipse in degrees Defaults to 360.

num_segmentsint

Number of segments to be used to draw the ellipse Defaults to 100

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

**kwargsdict

Keyword arguments to pass to PolygonVisual.

class vispy.scene.visuals.Graph(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.graphs.graph.GraphVisual

Visual for displaying graphs or networks.

This class inherits from visuals.GraphVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

adjacency_matarray or sparse

The adjacency matrix of the graph.

directedbool

Whether the graph is directed or not. If True, then this visual will draw arrows for the directed edges.

layoutstr

They layout to use.

animatebool

Whether or not to animate.

line_colorstr or vispy.color.colormap.ColorMap

The color to use for the edges.

line_widthnumber

The edge thickness.

arrow_typestr

The kind of arrow head to use. See vispy.visuals.ArrowHead for more information.

arrow_sizenumber

The size of the arrow head.

node_symbolstring

The marker to use for nodes. See vispy.visuals.MarkersVisual for more information.

node_sizenumber

The size of the node

border_colorstr or vispy.color.colormap.ColorMap

The border color for nodes.

face_colorstr or vispy.color.colormap.ColorMap

The face color for nodes.

border_widthnumber

The border size for nodes.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

See also

ArrowVisual, MarkersVisual

class vispy.scene.visuals.GridLines(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.gridlines.GridLinesVisual

Displays regularly spaced grid lines in any coordinate system and at any scale.

This class inherits from visuals.GridLinesVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

scaletuple

The scale factors to apply when determining the spacing of grid lines.

colorColor

The base color for grid lines. The final color may have its alpha channel modified.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.GridMesh(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.gridmesh.GridMeshVisual

Displays a mesh in a Cartesian grid about x,y,z coordinates.

This class inherits from visuals.GridMeshVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

This makes it simple to generate a mesh from e.g. the output of numpy.meshgrid.

All arguments are optional, though they can be changed individually later with the set_data method.

Parameters

xsndarray

A 2d array of x coordinates for the vertices of the mesh. Must have the same dimensions as ys and zs.

ysndarray

A 2d array of y coordinates for the vertices of the mesh. Must have the same dimensions as xs and zs.

zsndarray

A 2d array of z coordinates for the vertices of the mesh. Must have the same dimensions as xs and ys.

colorsndarray | None

The colors of the points of the mesh. Should be either a (width, height, 4) array of rgba colors at each grid point or a (width, height, 3) array of rgb colors at each grid point. Defaults to None, in which case the default color of a MeshVisual is used.

shadingstr | None

Same as for the MeshVisual class. Defaults to ‘smooth’.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

**kwargs :

Other arguments are passed directly to MeshVisual.

class vispy.scene.visuals.Histogram(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.histogram.HistogramVisual

Visual that calculates and displays a histogram of data

This class inherits from visuals.HistogramVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

dataarray-like

Data to histogram. Currently only 1D data is supported.

binsint | array-like

Number of bins, or bin edges.

colorinstance of Color

Color of the histogram.

orientation{‘h’, ‘v’}

Orientation of the histogram.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.Image(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.image.ImageVisual

Visual subclass displaying an image.

This class inherits from visuals.ImageVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

datandarray

ImageVisual data. Can be shape (M, N), (M, N, 3), or (M, N, 4).

methodstr

Selects method of rendering image in case of non-linear transforms. Each method produces similar results, but may trade efficiency and accuracy. If the transform is linear, this parameter is ignored and a single quad is drawn around the area of the image.

• ‘auto’: Automatically select ‘impostor’ if the image is drawn with a nonlinear transform; otherwise select ‘subdivide’.

• ‘subdivide’: ImageVisual is represented as a grid of triangles with texture coordinates linearly mapped.

• ‘impostor’: ImageVisual is represented as a quad covering the entire view, with texture coordinates determined by the transform. This produces the best transformation results, but may be slow.

grid: tuple (rows, cols)

If method=’subdivide’, this tuple determines the number of rows and columns in the image grid.

cmapstr | ColorMap

Colormap to use for luminance images.

climstr | tuple

Limits to use for the colormap. Can be ‘auto’ to auto-set bounds to the min and max of the data.

gammafloat

Gamma to use during colormap lookup. Final color will be cmap(val**gamma). by default: 1.

interpolationstr

Selects method of image interpolation. Makes use of the two Texture2D interpolation methods and the available interpolation methods defined in vispy/gloo/glsl/misc/spatial_filters.frag

• ‘nearest’: Default, uses ‘nearest’ with Texture2D interpolation.

• ‘bilinear’: uses ‘linear’ with Texture2D interpolation.

• ‘hanning’, ‘hamming’, ‘hermite’, ‘kaiser’, ‘quadric’, ‘bicubic’,

  ‘catrom’, ‘mitchell’, ‘spline16’, ‘spline36’, ‘gaussian’, ‘bessel’, ‘sinc’, ‘lanczos’, ‘blackman’

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

**kwargsdict

Keyword arguments to pass to Visual.

Notes

The colormap functionality through cmap and clim are only used if the data are 2D.

class vispy.scene.visuals.InfiniteLine(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.infinite_line.InfiniteLineVisual

Infinite horizontal or vertical line for 2D plots.

This class inherits from visuals.InfiniteLineVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

posfloat

Position of the line along the axis.

colorlist, tuple, or array

The color to use when drawing the line. If an array is given, it must be of shape (1, 4) and provide one rgba color per vertex.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

vertical:

True for drawing a vertical line, False for an horizontal line

class vispy.scene.visuals.Isocurve(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.isocurve.IsocurveVisual

Displays an isocurve of a 2D scalar array.

This class inherits from visuals.IsocurveVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

datandarray | None

2D scalar array.

levelsndarray, shape (Nlev,) | None

The levels at which the isocurve is constructed from “data”.

color_levColor, colormap name, tuple, list or array

The color to use when drawing the line. If a list is given, it must be of shape (Nlev), if an array is given, it must be of shape (Nlev, …). and provide one color per level (rgba, colorname).

climtuple

(min, max) limits to apply when mapping level values through a colormap.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

**kwargsdict

Keyword arguments to pass to LineVisual.

class vispy.scene.visuals.Isoline(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.isoline.IsolineVisual

Isocurves of a tri mesh with data at vertices at different levels.

This class inherits from visuals.IsolineVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

verticesndarray, shape (Nv, 3) | None

Vertex coordinates.

trisndarray, shape (Nf, 3) | None

Indices into the vertex array.

datandarray, shape (Nv,) | None

scalar at vertices

levelsndarray, shape (Nlev,) | None

The levels at which the isocurve is constructed from “data”.

color_levColor, tuple, colormap name or array

The color to use when drawing the line. If an array is given, it must be of shape (Nlev, 4) and provide one rgba color by level.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

**kwargsdict

Keyword arguments to pass to LineVisual.

class vispy.scene.visuals.Isosurface(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.isosurface.IsosurfaceVisual

Displays an isosurface of a 3D scalar array.

This class inherits from visuals.IsosurfaceVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

datandarray | None

3D scalar array.

level: float | None

The level at which the isosurface is constructed from data.

vertex_colorsndarray | None

The vertex colors to use.

face_colorsndarray | None

The face colors to use.

colorndarray | None

The color to use.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

**kwargsdict

Keyword arguments to pass to the mesh construction.

class vispy.scene.visuals.Line(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.line.line.LineVisual

Line visual

This class inherits from visuals.LineVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

posarray

Array of shape (…, 2) or (…, 3) specifying vertex coordinates.

colorColor, tuple, or array

The color to use when drawing the line. If an array is given, it must be of shape (…, 4) and provide one rgba color per vertex. Can also be a colormap name, or appropriate Function.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

width:

The width of the line in px. Line widths > 1px are only guaranteed to work when using ‘agg’ method.

connectstr or array

Determines which vertices are connected by lines.

• “strip” causes the line to be drawn with each vertex connected to the next.

• “segments” causes each pair of vertices to draw an independent line segment

• numpy arrays specify the exact set of segment pairs to connect.

methodstr

Mode to use for drawing.

• “agg” uses anti-grain geometry to draw nicely antialiased lines with proper joins and endcaps.

• “gl” uses OpenGL’s built-in line rendering. This is much faster, but produces much lower-quality results and is not guaranteed to obey the requested line width or join/endcap styles.

antialiasbool

Enables or disables antialiasing. For method=’gl’, this specifies whether to use GL’s line smoothing, which may be unavailable or inconsistent on some platforms.

class vispy.scene.visuals.LinePlot(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.line_plot.LinePlotVisual

Visual displaying a plot line with optional markers.

This class inherits from visuals.LinePlotVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

dataarray-like

Arguments can be passed as (Y,), (X, Y), (X, Y, Z) or np.array((X, Y)), np.array((X, Y, Z)).

colorinstance of Color

Color of the line.

symbolstr

Marker symbol to use.

line_kindstr

Kind of line to draw. For now, only solid lines ('-') are supported.

widthfloat

Line width.

marker_sizefloat

Marker size. If size == 0 markers will not be shown.

edge_colorinstance of Color

Color of the marker edge.

face_colorinstance of Color

Color of the marker face.

edge_widthfloat

Edge width of the marker.

connectstr | array

See LineVisual.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

**kwargskeyword arguments

Argements to pass to the super class.

See also

LineVisual, MarkersVisual, marker_types

Examples

All of these syntaxes will work:

>>> LinePlotVisual(y_vals)
>>> LinePlotVisual(x_vals, y_vals)
>>> LinePlotVisual(xy_vals)

class vispy.scene.visuals.LinearRegion(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.linear_region.LinearRegionVisual

Infinite horizontal or vertical region for 2D plots.

This class inherits from visuals.LinearRegionVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

poslist, tuple or numpy array

Bounds of the region along the axis. len(pos) must be >=2.

colorlist, tuple, or array

The color to use when drawing the line. It must have a shape of (1, 4) for a single color region or (len(pos), 4) for a multicolor region.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

vertical:

True for drawing a vertical region, False for an horizontal region

class vispy.scene.visuals.Markers(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.markers.MarkersVisual

Visual displaying marker symbols.

This class inherits from visuals.MarkersVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.Mesh(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.mesh.MeshVisual

Mesh visual

This class inherits from visuals.MeshVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

verticesarray-like | None

The vertices.

facesarray-like | None

The faces.

vertex_colorsarray-like | None

Colors to use for each vertex.

face_colorsarray-like | None

Colors to use for each face.

colorinstance of Color

The color to use.

vertex_valuesarray-like | None

The values to use for each vertex (for colormapping).

meshdatainstance of MeshData | None

The meshdata.

shadingstr | None

Shading to use.

modestr

The drawing mode.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

**kwargsdict

Keyword arguments to pass to Visual.

class vispy.scene.visuals.Plane(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.plane.PlaneVisual

Visual that displays a plane.

This class inherits from visuals.PlaneVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

widthfloat

Plane width.

heightfloat

Plane height.

width_segmentsint

Plane segments count along the width.

height_segmentsfloat

Plane segments count along the height.

direction: unicode

{'-x', '+x', '-y', '+y', '-z', '+z'} Direction the plane will be facing.

vertex_colorsndarray

Same as for MeshVisual class. See create_plane for vertex ordering.

face_colorsndarray

Same as for MeshVisual class. See create_plane for vertex ordering.

colorColor

The Color to use when drawing the cube faces.

edge_colortuple or Color

The Color to use when drawing the cube edges. If None, then no cube edges are drawn.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.Polygon(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.polygon.PolygonVisual

Displays a 2D polygon

This class inherits from visuals.PolygonVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

posarray

Set of vertices defining the polygon.

colorstr | tuple | list of colors

Fill color of the polygon.

border_colorstr | tuple | list of colors

Border color of the polygon.

border_widthint

Border width in pixels. Line widths > 1px are only guaranteed to work when using border_method=’agg’ method.

border_methodstr

Mode to use for drawing the border line (see LineVisual).

• “agg” uses anti-grain geometry to draw nicely antialiased lines with proper joins and endcaps.

• “gl” uses OpenGL’s built-in line rendering. This is much faster, but produces much lower-quality results and is not guaranteed to obey the requested line width or join/endcap styles.

triangulateboolean

Triangulate the set of vertices

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

**kwargsdict

Keyword arguments to pass to CompoundVisual.

class vispy.scene.visuals.Rectangle(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.rectangle.RectangleVisual

Displays a 2D rectangle with optional rounded corners

This class inherits from visuals.RectangleVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

centerarray

Center of the rectangle

colorinstance of Color

The fill color to use.

border_colorinstance of Color

The border color to use.

border_widthint

Border width in pixels. Line widths > 1px are only guaranteed to work when using border_method=’agg’ method.

heightfloat

Length of the rectangle along y-axis Defaults to 1.0

widthfloat

Length of the rectangle along x-axis Defaults to 1.0

radiusfloat | array

Radii of curvatures of corners in clockwise order from top-left Defaults to 0.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

**kwargsdict

Keyword arguments to pass to PolygonVisual.

class vispy.scene.visuals.RegularPolygon(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.regular_polygon.RegularPolygonVisual

Displays a regular polygon

This class inherits from visuals.RegularPolygonVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

centerarray-like (x, y)

Center of the regular polygon

colorstr | tuple | list of colors

Fill color of the polygon

border_colorstr | tuple | list of colors

Border color of the polygon

border_width: float

The width of the border in pixels

radiusfloat

Radius of the regular polygon Defaults to 0.1

sidesint

Number of sides of the regular polygon

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.ScrollingLines(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.scrolling_lines.ScrollingLinesVisual

Displays many line strips of equal length, with the option to add new vertex data to one end of the lines.

This class inherits from visuals.ScrollingLinesVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

n_linesint

The number of independent line strips to draw.

line_sizeint

The number of samples in each line strip.

dxfloat

The x distance between samples

colorarray-like

An array of colors to assign to each line strip.

pos_offsetarray-like

An array of x, y position offsets to apply to each line strip.

columnsint

Arrange line strips into a grid with this number of columns. This option is not compatible with pos_offset.

cell_sizetuple

The x, y distance between cells in the grid.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.Spectrogram(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.spectrogram.SpectrogramVisual

Calculate and show a spectrogram

This class inherits from visuals.SpectrogramVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

xarray-like

1D signal to operate on. If len(x) < n_fft, x will be zero-padded to length n_fft.

n_fftint

Number of FFT points. Much faster for powers of two.

stepint | None

Step size between calculations. If None, n_fft // 2 will be used.

fsfloat

The sample rate of the data.

windowstr | None

Window function to use. Can be 'hann' for Hann window, or None for no windowing.

normalizebool

Normalization of spectrogram values across frequencies.

color_scale{‘linear’, ‘log’}

Scale to apply to the result of the STFT. 'log' will use 10 * log10(power).

cmapstr

Colormap name.

climstr | tuple

Colormap limits. Should be 'auto' or a two-element tuple of min and max values.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.Sphere(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.sphere.SphereVisual

Visual that displays a sphere

This class inherits from visuals.SphereVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

radiusfloat

The size of the sphere.

colsint

Number of cols that make up the sphere mesh (for method=’latitude’ and ‘cube’).

rowsint

Number of rows that make up the sphere mesh (for method=’latitude’ and ‘cube’).

depthint

Number of depth segments that make up the sphere mesh (for method=’cube’).

subdivisionsint

Number of subdivisions to perform (for method=’ico’).

methodstr

Method for generating sphere. Accepts ‘latitude’ for latitude-longitude, ‘ico’ for icosahedron, and ‘cube’ for cube based tessellation.

vertex_colorsndarray

Same as for MeshVisual class. See create_sphere for vertex ordering.

face_colorsndarray

Same as for MeshVisual class. See create_sphere for vertex ordering.

colorColor

The Color to use when drawing the sphere faces.

edge_colortuple or Color

The Color to use when drawing the sphere edges. If None, then no sphere edges are drawn.

shadingstr | None

Shading to use.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.SurfacePlot(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.surface_plot.SurfacePlotVisual

Displays a surface plot on a regular x,y grid

This class inherits from visuals.SurfacePlotVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

xndarray | None

1D/2D array of values specifying the x positions of vertices in the grid. In case 1D array given as input, the values will be replicated to fill the 2D array of size(z). If None, values will be assumed to be integers.

yndarray | None

1D/2D array of values specifying the y positions of vertices in the grid. In case 1D array given as input, the values will be replicated to fill the 2D array of size(z). If None, values will be assumed to be integers.

zndarray

2D array of height values for each grid vertex.

colorsndarray

(width, height, 4) array of vertex colors.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

Notes

All arguments are optional.

Note that if vertex positions are updated, the normal vectors for each triangle must be recomputed. This is somewhat expensive if the surface was initialized with smooth=False and very expensive if smooth=True. For faster performance, initialize with compute_normals=False and use per-vertex colors or a material that does not require normals.

class vispy.scene.visuals.Text(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.text.text.TextVisual

Visual that displays text

This class inherits from visuals.TextVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Note: SDF GPU is not currently supported in WebGL without additional

extensions (see comments in fragment shader below).

Parameters

textstr | list of str

Text to display. Can also be a list of strings. Note: support for list of str might be removed soon in favor of text collections.

colorinstance of Color

Color to use.

boldbool

Bold face.

italicbool

Italic face.

facestr

Font face to use.

font_sizefloat

Point size to use.

postuple | list of tuple

Position (x, y) or (x, y, z) of the text. Can also be a list of tuple if text is a list.

rotationfloat

Rotation (in degrees) of the text clockwise.

anchor_xstr

Horizontal text anchor.

anchor_ystr

Vertical text anchor.

methodstr

Rendering method for text characters. Either ‘cpu’ (default) or ‘gpu’. The ‘cpu’ method should perform better on remote backends like those based on WebGL. The ‘gpu’ method should produce higher quality results.

font_managerobject | None

Font manager to use (can be shared if the GLContext is shared).

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.Tube(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.tube.TubeVisual

Displays a tube around a piecewise-linear path.

This class inherits from visuals.TubeVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

The tube mesh is corrected following its Frenet curvature and torsion such that it varies smoothly along the curve, including if the tube is closed.

Parameters

pointsndarray

An array of (x, y, z) points describing the path along which the tube will be extruded.

radiusfloat | ndarray

The radius of the tube. Use array of floats as input to set radii of points individually. Defaults to 1.0.

closedbool

Whether the tube should be closed, joining the last point to the first. Defaults to False.

colorColor | ColorArray

The color(s) to use when drawing the tube. The same color is applied to each vertex of the mesh surrounding each point of the line. If the input is a ColorArray, the argument will be cycled; for instance if ‘red’ is passed then the entire tube will be red, or if [‘green’, ‘blue’] is passed then the points will alternate between these colours. Defaults to ‘purple’.

tube_pointsint

The number of points in the circle-approximating polygon of the tube’s cross section. Defaults to 8.

shadingstr | None

Same as for the MeshVisual class. Defaults to ‘smooth’.

vertex_colors: ndarray | None

Same as for the MeshVisual class.

face_colors: ndarray | None

Same as for the MeshVisual class.

modestr

Same as for the MeshVisual class. Defaults to ‘triangles’.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode(parent=None, name=None)

Bases: vispy.scene.node.Node

draw()

property interactive

Whether this widget should be allowed to accept mouse and touch events.

property picking

Boolean that determines whether this node (and its children) are drawn in picking mode.

class vispy.scene.visuals.Volume(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.volume.VolumeVisual

Displays a 3D Volume

This class inherits from visuals.VolumeVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

volndarray

The volume to display. Must be ndim==3.

climtuple of two floats | None

The contrast limits. The values in the volume are mapped to black and white corresponding to these values. Default maps between min and max.

method{‘mip’, ‘translucent’, ‘additive’, ‘iso’}

The render method to use. See corresponding docs for details. Default ‘mip’.

thresholdfloat

The threshold to use for the isosurface render method. By default the mean of the given volume is used.

relative_step_sizefloat

The relative step size to step through the volume. Default 0.8. Increase to e.g. 1.5 to increase performance, at the cost of quality.

cmapstr

Colormap to use.

gammafloat

Gamma to use during colormap lookup. Final color will be cmap(val**gamma). by default: 1.

clim_range_thresholdfloat

When changing the clims, if the new clim range is smaller than this fraction of the last-used texture data range, then it will trigger a rescaling of the texture data. For instance: if the texture data was last scaled from 0-1, and the clims are set to 0.4-0.5, then a texture rescale will be triggered if clim_range_threshold < 0.1. To prevent rescaling, set this value to 0. To always rescale, set the value to >= 1. By default, 0.2

emulate_texturebool

Use 2D textures to emulate a 3D texture. OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible, but has lower performance on desktop platforms.

interpolation{‘linear’, ‘nearest’}

Selects method of image interpolation.

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.Windbarb(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.windbarb.WindbarbVisual

Visual displaying windbarbs.

This class inherits from visuals.WindbarbVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

class vispy.scene.visuals.XYZAxis(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: vispy.scene.visuals.VisualNode, vispy.visuals.xyz_axis.XYZAxisVisual

Simple 3D axis for indicating coordinate system orientation. Axes are x=red, y=green, z=blue.

This class inherits from visuals.XYZAxisVisual and scene.Node, allowing the visual to be placed inside a scenegraph.

Parameters

parentNode

The parent node to assign to this node (optional).

namestring

A name for this node, used primarily for debugging (optional).

vispy.scene.subscene module vispy.testing package