Implementation Of Visualization Framework

[gviga]

Hi,
I was thinking about how we can visualize shapes and came up with a proposal.
Since there are different libraries out there to plot meshes and point clouds and it seems that a lot of people use their favorite, I was thinking of developing a structure to define some 'Primitive' class, e.g a function to plot a mesh, that can be created in different ways using different libraries.
From this idea comes the Shape/Mesh Plotter, which implements different functions depending on the selected library.

For now, I implemented a function to plot meshes using PyVista and Plotly (I still have problems with PyVista).

I'm curious about what you think about this idea and if my implementation for this kind of things makes sense.

[luisfpereira]

Great job @gviga! I can see you get the main idea behind this package.

I've done a small git change here: this branch now starts from main, instead of scalable-fm.
This because they're independent and I believe we'll merge this before scalable-fm.
Please pull it locally again before merging any commit (you may need to delete your current visual and then do git fetch, git switch -c visual origin/visual).

Notice if you need any change available in other branch for testing purposes, you can always locally create a third branch and merge all the required branches. (Then remember to do commits only in the respective original branches.)

If you need that features for this code to work, then let's try to merge those other branches to main asap and merge main here.

I know this is annoying, but it makes things cleaner to develop/review.
When the package becomes more mature, this kind of weird development workflow will be avoided.

[luisfpereira]

Great starting point @gviga!

[luisfpereira]

let's return fig or the plotter in all the plot functions; users may want to perform further operations on these objects.

[luisfpereira]

maybe do not call show and expect plotter to have that method.

[gviga]

For the moment, I have implemented a show() function that displaying attributes instantiated by the plot function

[gviga]

Hi @luisfpereira ,
I have developed your suggestions. I have implemented the two functions as functions that take as input meshes and outputs specific objects.

[gviga]

Hi there, I have implemented a function to select indexes of points to select landmarks for shapes. I noticed we are missing a way to differentiate between point clouds and meshes at plotting time. Let me know if you have any ideas. However, I think we can start merging this code to have some basic implementation while we work on other parts.