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The MayaVi Data VisualizerMayavi2: the next generationMayaVi is not dead! Mayavi2 is the next generation of MayaVi. Mayavi2, is a full rewrite of the original MayaVi and provides far more scriptability, easier usage for common patterns, and easy embedding in Python applications. Mayavi2 has been under very active development for a while now and has many more features than Mayavi-1.x. Please consult the Mayavi2 home page at http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi for more installation instructions and a user guide. The following information and the information on this site pertains to the older MayaVi-1.x versions. Note that MayaVi-1.x is no longer under active development. MayaVi1: the pastMayaVi1 is a free, easy to use scientific data visualizer. It is written in Python and uses the amazing Visualization Toolkit (VTK) for the graphics. It provides a GUI written using Tkinter. MayaVi is free and distributed under the conditions of the BSD license. It is also cross platform and should run on any platform where both Python and VTK are available (which is almost any *nix, Mac OSX or Windows).
Latest version: 1.5 Fairly stable CVS snapshots of MayaVi are obtainable from the download link on the left. Features
The nameMayaVi is pronounced as a single name as "Ma-ya-vee". It is not pronounced as "Maya" + "Vi". MayaVi has nothing to do with either Maya (the graphics/modelling tool) or Vi (the editor). In Sanskrit "mayavi" means magician. The name wasn't exactly chosen for its meaning but was the result of a long and hard search with the author pestering a lot of people for suggestions. My sincere thanks to all of those who offered suggestions. HistoryEarlier, the author had developed a similar visualization tool called VTK-CFD. This tool was originally intended for a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) audience but had features that made it more of a generic data visualizer. After the VTK-CFD 0.6 version, it was completely redesigned, rewritten and renamed. The new design makes MayaVi a general scientific data visualizer. Last modified: 26 May 2007 |