PyVista is a helper library for the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) that takes a different approach on interfacing with VTK through NumPy and direct array access.

The PyVista project is a collection of Free Licensed Open Source Software (FLOSS) around 3D visualization and mesh analysis in Python. The flagship PyVista library provides the core 3D plotting and mesh types used across the PyVista project.

PyVista is a powerful tool that researchers can harness to create compelling, integrated visualizations of large datasets in an intuitive, Pythonic manner. Learn more about how PyVista is used across science and engineering disciplines by a diverse community of users on our Connections page.

PyVista is a general purpose 3D visualization library used for over 500+ open source projects and many closed source projects for the visualization of everything from computer aided engineering and geophysics to volcanoes and digital artwork.

Jul 16, 2025 · PyVista is a powerful tool that researchers can harness to create compelling, integrated visualizations of large datasets in an intuitive, Pythonic manner. Learn more about how PyVista is used across science and engineering disciplines by a diverse community of users on our Connections page.

Getting Started # This guide is here to help you start creating interactive 3D plots with PyVista with the help of our examples and tutorials.

The only prerequisite for installing PyVista is Python itself. If you don’t have Python yet and want the simplest way to get started, we recommend you use the Anaconda Distribution.

PyVista is used across science and engineering disciplines. A diverse community use PyVista to visualize data/models in 3D, generate publication-quality illustrations, automate analysis workflows, and build custom applications leveraging PyVista's 3D capabilities.

In this work, we develop AIRFRANS, a dataset for studying the two-dimensional incompressible steady-state Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations over airfoils at a subsonic regime and for different angles of attacks.

Plot with pyvista interactively within a Jupyter notebook. Supported Modules: The PyVista module supports a variety of backends when plotting within a jupyter notebook: Server and client-side rende...