Anyone using 3D visualization (with PyVista)?

[banesullivan]

Not too long ago, I posted about a 3D visualization accessor for Xarray using PyVista:

Introducing pyvista-xarray for 3D visualization

I’ve recently been working on pyvista-xarray to create a DataArray accessor that builds a direct line of interoperability between xarray and VTK/PyVista for 3D visualization. This package is still in its early stages and I’d love to solicit as much feedback as possible from the xarray community about the types of data and ways in which you all would like to see this package improve to address 3D visualization needs. Additionally, this package provides a DataSet IO backend for reading VTK files…

Code here

GitHub - pyvista/pyvista-xarray: xarray DataArray accessors for PyVista

Some animations here:

https://github.com/pyvista/pyvista-xarray/discussions/49

Since then, PyVista has seen major improvements to the visualization capabilities in Jupyter and the web. See:

PyVista + Trame = Jupyter 3D Visualization

Soliciting Feedback

I’m curious if anyone here is using PyVista and/or pyvista-xarray? If so, I’d love to gather feedback (good or bad) about these tools and how you use (or want to use) these. And if not using these tools directly, I’m also curious to gather insights about broader 3D visualization challenges in the Pangeo ecosystem.

[RichardScottOZ]

PyVista quite a lot - pyvista-xarray I would have used more when I made a bunch of stuff a while back - but likely will going forwards.