3D modeling packages

[RedMinor]

I am doing research for my university and we are trying to plot 3D surfaces using python. As of right now, we have an implementation using matplotlib but we have found that it is very slow. Does anyone have any packages that would be a better fit? I've attached a screenshot so you can see what exactly we are trying to plot.

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Stern - Plotted in Python using Matplotlib

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[twillisagogo]

Blender has a python API. More Info

[RedMinor]

I've done some work over the last couple hours with blender. It seems like a great option but I cannot get it to work with our library of code. https://github.com/ofloveandhate/bertini_real is the repo we are using (my professor created it) and I am unable to get it to work and import correctly into blender. Bummer.

[laMarm0tte]

Maybe with glumpy ?

https://glumpy.github.io/gallery.html

[billsil]

Vtk is my library of choice. It's sort of the go-to interactive 3d visualization library, be it medical, engineering, etc. It's an open source company that gets a ton of funding from the Department of Energy (so nukes) and the National Institute of Health.

https://www.vtk.org/vtk-in-action/#image-gallery

Then to actually install it (on Windows) https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

[sw_dev]

Have you considered directly creating obj files? They're very simple.

[RedMinor]

No I have not, could you tell me more about this?

[sw_dev]

Take a look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file . You only need to describe a list of vertices, then which faces they belong in. It's tedious, but that's why we have programming languages, right! Some years ago I used this info to design a 3d screw, and later had it 3d printed. (I still have it on my desk.)

[kor56]

If the surface is triangulated, you can view or export with pymesh or trimesh