Interface (buttons/picking vertices) about libigl-python-bindings

[teseoch]

we are not planning to add to the viewer to the current bindings

the current bindings are compatible with NumPy so you can use any python library.

I know of a project that is emulating the current viewer using Qt:
https://github.com/sunreef/PyIGL_viewer

[fwilliams]

If you're looking for a top notch 3D viewer in Python. Mayavi mlab is fantastic!

You can install it through conda with

conda install -c anaconda mayavi

(The conda method works on all platforms while I've found the instructions on the website only really work on Linux)

[MichaelRabinovich]

Thanks!
Both of the projects looks really nice, but none gives the full set of features the previous viewer had (for instance textures support, picking vertices).

I saw that the old python bindings will be removed from next libigl versions. This means that the new python bindings could not run out of the box most tutorials, right?

I'll be interested in hearing what the developers of libigl use. I guess some don't need certain interactive tools that exist in the C++ version, but also that some do.

[skoch9]

For the official tutorials we use meshplot.
You can check out the binder for an interactive session. Meshplot supports textures and interactivity. Picking is added soon. However, it runs in Jupyter Notebooks, so it's not a standalone viewer, but you can export your results to static html files (as done in our tutorials).

[fwilliams]

You can do texturing in Mayavi: Here's an example.