Mission - almarklein/visvis GitHub Wiki

Mission

The mission of visvis is to create a lightweight but powerful visualization toolkit that is easy to install, easy to use, enables making interactive tools, and can be used in (commercial) applications.

• Powerful: thin layer, allowing the user to use OpenGl if necessary, use of GLSL
• Easy installation: few dependencies, pure Python
• Easy to use: object oriented, much use of properties, good documentation, large set of convenience functions
• Interactive: effective event system, support for picking
• Usable in apps: multiple backends, easy embedding, liberal license.

Further, visvis is designed to be run from Python scripts, as well as in interactive sessions using IEP or IPython.