Mayavi: A Free Tool For 3D/2D Data Visualization: Prabhu Ramachandran

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MayaVi: A Free Tool for 3D/2D Data Visualization

Prabhu Ramachandran
October, 25, 2002
Abstract MayaVi (http://mayavi.sf.net) is an easy to use tool for interactive 3D/2D data visualization and has been developed at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT-Madras. MayaVi is free, Open Source and cross platform. It supports rectilinear, structured and unstructured grids and also polygonal data. MayaVi can visualize grids, scalars, vectors and tensors in different ways. This talk introduces MayaVi, demonstrates its capabilities, features and usage.
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2. Introduction
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Interactively visualize 2D/3D data. Web site: http://mayavi.sf.net Hosted at SourceForge. Written in Python. Uses VTK for the graphics. Cross platform (*nix/Linux, Windows and possibly Mac OS X). Developed at IITM. Users guide available in HTML and PDF.
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3. Features
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Open Source. Graphical user interface. Supports rectilinear, structured, unstructured and polygonal data. Support for VTK and PLOT3D data. Supports scalar, vector and tensor data. Save image to PS, BMP, JPEG, PNG, RIB and other les. Save the visualization or part of it. VRML, 3DS import.
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MayaVi Features

Lookup table editor. Data picker, light editor. Usable as stand-alone application or as a Python module. Scriptable from Python.
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4. History
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Started with a few simple scripts in late 1999. June 2000 First release of VTK-CFD. January 2001 Last release of VTK-CFD. May 2001 First release of MayaVi. June 2002 Latest release MayaVi 1.2.
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5. Motivational Demo
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Shown here is a visualization for the ow past a cylinder placed on a at plate. Data courtesy NASA.
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Installation
Two types of installers. 1. Binary. 2. Source.
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Linux Debian, RPM, tarball. Windows Binary installer, sources. Details available at: http://mayavi.sf.net
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8. Creating data les
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VTK data les
Detailed documentation on this is available here: http://www.vtk.org/pdf/le-formats.pdf. VTK data les support the following Datasets. 1. Structured points. 2. Rectilinear grid. 3. Structured grid. 4. Unstructured grid. 5. Polygonal data.
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General structure
# vtk DataFile Version 2.0 A long string describing the file (256 chars) ASCII | BINARY DATASET [type] ... POINT_DATA n ... CELL_DATA n ...
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Point and cell data can be supplied together. n is the number of points or cells.
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Structured Points
# vtk DataFile Version 2.0 Structured points example. ASCII DATASET STRUCTURED_POINTS DIMENSIONS nx ny nz ORIGIN x0 y0 z0 SPACING sx sy sz
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Important: There is an implicit ordering of points and cells. The X co-ordinate increases rst, Y next and Z last. nx 1, ny 1, nz 1
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# vtk DataFile Version 2.0 Rectilinear grid example. ASCII DATASET RECTILINEAR_GRID DIMENSIONS nx ny nz X_COORDINATES nx [dataType] x0 x1 ... x(nx-1) Y_COORDINATES ny [dataType] y0 y1 ... y(ny-1) Z_COORDINATES nz [dataType] z0 z1 ... z(nz-1)
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Important: Implicit ordering as in structured points. The X co-ordinate increases rst, Y next and Z last.
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# vtk DataFile Version 2.0 Structured grid example. ASCII DATASET STRUCTURED_GRID DIMENSIONS nx ny nz POINTS N [dataType] x0 y0 z0 x1 y0 z0 x0 y1 z0 x1 y1 z0 x0 y0 z1 ...
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Polygonal data
[ HEADER ] DATASET POLYDATA POINTS n dataType x0 y0 z0 x1 y1 z1 ... x(n-1) y(n-1) z(n-1) POLYGONS numPolygons size numPoints0 i0 j0 k0 ... numPoints1 i1 j1 k1 ... ...
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size = total number of connectivity indices.

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Unstructured grids
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DATASET UNSTRUCTURED_GRID POINTS n dataType x0 y0 z0 ... x(n-1) y(n-1) z(n-1) CELLS n size numPoints0 i j k l ... numPoints1 i j k l ... ... CELL_TYPES n type0 type1 ...
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size = total number of connectivity indices.

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Dataset attributes
Associated with each point/cell one may specify an attribute. VTK data les support scalar, vector and tensor attributes. Cell and point data attributes. Multiple attributes per same le.
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Scalar attributes
SCALARS dataName dataType numComp LOOKUP_TABLE tableName s0 s1 ...
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dataName: any string with no whitespace (case sensitive!). dataType: usually float or double. numComp: optional and can be left as empty. tableName: use the value default.
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Vector attributes
VECTORS dataName dataType v0x v0y v0z v1x v1y v1z ...
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dataName: any string with no whitespace (case sensitive!). dataType: usually float or double.
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# vtk DataFile Version 2.0 Structured points example. ASCII DATASET STRUCTURED_POINTS DIMENSIONS 2 2 1 ORIGIN 0.0 0.0 0.0 SPACING 1.0 1.0 1.0 POINT_DATA 4 SCALARS Temperature float LOOKUP_TABLE default 100 200 300 400 VECTORS 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 velocity float 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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9. Using MayaVi
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Using MayaVi

Start MayaVi. Open a data le. Visualize the data using a Module. Optionally lter the data. Congure everything to your taste. Save the visualization.
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10. Advanced features
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Advanced features

Scripting MayaVi from Python. Animation. Using the Pipeline browser. Extending MayaVi.
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A redesign is under way. More powerful GUI. More modules. Should be easier to extend. Other GUI toolkit support.
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Two types of installers. 1. Binary. 2. Source.

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size = total number of connectivity indices.

size = total number of connectivity indices.

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Important: The X co-ordinate increases rst, Y next and Z last. N = nxnynz