Features - almarklein/visvis GitHub Wiki

Visvis supports the following world objects:

plot() creates a (lines+markers) in 2D and 3D (Line object).
imshow() creates a 2D grayscale and color image (Texture2D object).
volshow() creates a rendered 3D volumes, which can be rendered using several different styles (Texture3D object).
Several functions create polygonal meshes and surfaces (Mesh object).
polarplot() for log-polar plots.
bar3() creates a 3D bar chart.
The MotionDataContainer class can be used to visualize animated data.
The Text class displays text at a certain position in world coordinates. The font size is expressed in screen coordinates though.

Visvis ...

supports colormaps.
supports fast interaction with the mouse (zooming/panning, and rotating in 3D).
has a simple and effective event system, allowing picking of all objects, also in 3D.
has a simple structured object model. Objects can be nested to create more complex models. Transformations (scaling, translation, rotation) applied to an object are also applied to its children.
uses properties to change the appearance of objects.
has an easy to use (Matlab like) functional interface to create visualization objects.
supports full Unicode text (if FreeType is installed). Various escape sequences to support bold, italics, sub- and superscript, greek, and mathematical symbols are available.
has support for animated data.
can make screenshots of the figure or axes. This screenshot can be interpolated using bicubic interpolation before writing the image to a file, which significantly increases the smoothness of the fonts.
has support to record screenshots as a movie, which can be exported to swf-files (flash), animated gif, AVI, or a series of images.
supports easy reading and writing images as numpy arrays (if PIL is installed).

Visvis does not (yet) support: