Chapter 3. Using MayaVi

Table of Contents
The Basic Design of MayaVi
Data formats
Opening a data file
Visualizing the Data
Picking data
Configuring the lights
The Menus
Module Documentation
Filter Documentation

This chapter describes in detail the way to use MayaVi for your data visualization.

The Basic Design of MayaVi

It is important to understand the basic design of MayaVi before you use it. MayaVi is a data visualizer and the design reflects this. The basic design is simple and is described in this section.

The Control Panel

The control panel needs to be understood before one can do anything serious with MayaVi. This section describes the control panel in some detail.

Although the above sounds complex, it really is not. It may just take a little getting used to before you are completely comfortable with it. The following figure illustrates the above and clarifies matters.

If you have multiple DataVizManagers and want to see the ModuleManagers of one of them then you either double click on the appropriate manager or single click on the manager and click on the Show Pipeline for the DataVizManagers and on the Show for the ModuleManagers.

The other GUI buttons and features are all rather self explanatory. There are only a few points that need to be made in order to make this description complete: