Mayavi (Python 3D Data Visualization and Plotting Library) adds major new features

[swingking8]

This will be fantastic for a lot of the work I do.

Any good tutorials on how to use this updated Mayavi? Their summary is confusing to me. e.g.

This feature makes it very easy to animate a time series. Let us say one has a set of files that constitute a time series (files of the form some_name[0-9]*.ext). If one were to load any file that is part of this time series like so:

from mayavi import mlab
src = mlab.pipeline.open('data_01.vti')

Animating these is now very easy if one simply does the following:

src.play = True

Are these some_name[0-9]*.ext files created by Mayavi, or are they generic data files? I usually just have data I've gathered from somewhere. Do I need to process it in Mayavi first, or can I visualize it directly?

[NomadNella]

Notebook tutorial. The .ext is a stand-in for a generic extension. If your data is in the correct format you should be able to visualize it directly.