Artist

An Artist is a fundamantal object in veux that acts like a Figure in matplotlib. This is a class that owns a Model and a Canvas, and provides a convenient interface for drawing entities associated with the model. That is, rather than manually drawing lines and surfaces through the Canvas, an artist can be used to draw higher-level entities like frames and shells.

• draw_outlines
• draw_surfaces
• draw_sections

Viewing a Rendering

To view a rendering generated with canvas="gltf" or canvas="plotly", use the veux.serve() function::

veux.serve(artist)

This will start a local web server and output a message like::

Listening on http://localhost:8081/
Hit Ctrl-C to quit.

Open the URL (e.g., http://localhost:8081) in a web browser to interactively view the rendering.

Saving a Rendering

Use the artist.save(...) method to write the rendering to a file. The file format depends on the selected canvas:

• gltf: Files are saved in the glTF format with a .glb extension:

  artist.save("model.glb")
  

• plotly: Files are saved as .html::

  artist.save("model.html")
  

• matplotlib: Files are saved as .png::

  artist.save("model.png")