MayaVi

Māyāvi is a Malayalam comic strip appearing in the Indian comic magazine Balarama owned by MM Publications. The series, was first published in the August 1984 issue of Balarama. Artist M. Mohandas gradually took over the drawing of the series after Balarama became a fortnightly. Māyāvi, the protagonist in the series, is a goblin, who helps keep the forest safe from villains and dark wizards. Most of the stories revolves around how two dark magicians and their companions try to capture Māyāvi, but fail hilariously. Māyāvi takes place in a secluded forest in Kerala. It is not exactly known when the story takes place. In the local language Malayalam Māyāvi is a combination of two words (māya+āvi) when translated mean magic and spirit respectively. As the target audience is young, the story takes the liberty to draw a fantasy world, in which wizards, demons and other strange creatures exist. However, despite the simplicity and slapstick comedy, Māyāvi became one of the most widely read children's comics in Malayalam language.

MayaVi is a scientific data visualizer written in Python, which uses VTK and provides a GUI via Tkinter. MayaVi was developed by Prabhu Ramachandran, is free and distributed under the BSD License. It is cross-platform and runs on any platform where both Python and VTK are available (almost any Unix, Mac OS X, or Windows). MayaVi is pronounced as a single name, "Ma-ya-vee", meaning "magical" in Sanskrit. The code of MayaVi has nothing in common with that of Autodesk Maya or the Vi text editor. The latest version of MayaVi, called Mayavi2, is a component of the Enthought suite of scientific Python programs. It differs from the original MayaVi by its strong focus on making an interactive program and a reusable component for 3D plotting in Python. Although it exposes a slightly different interface and API than the original MayaVi, it now has more features. ==Major features== visualizes computational grids and scalar, vector, and tensor data an easy-to-use GUI can be imported as a Python module from other Python programs or can be scripted from the Python interpreter supports volume visualization of data via texture and ray cast mappers support for any VTK dataset using the VTK data format support for PLOT3D data multiple datasets can be used simultaneously provides a pipeline browser, with which objects in the VTK pipeline can be browsed and edited imports simple VRML and 3D Studio scenes custom modules and data filters can be added exporting to PostScript files, PPM/BMP/TIFF/JPEG/PNG images, Open Inventor, Geomview OOGL, VRML files, Wavefront .obj files, or RenderMan RIB file ==Examples== ===Spherical harmonics=== from numpy import linspace, meshgrid, array, sin, cos, pi, abs from scipy.special import sph_harm from mayavi import mlab theta_1d = linspace(0, pi, 91) phi_1d = linspace(0, 2 * pi, 181) theta_2d, phi_2d = meshgrid(theta_1d, phi_1d) xyz_2d = array( [sin(theta_2d) * sin(phi_2d), sin(theta_2d) * cos(phi_2d), cos(theta_2d)] ) l = 3 m = 0 Y_lm = sph_harm(m, l, phi_2d, theta_2d) r = abs(Y_lm.real) * xyz_2d mlab.figure(size=(700, 830)) mlab.mesh(r[0], r[1], r[2], scalars=Y_lm.real, colormap="cool") mlab.view(azimuth=0, elevation=75, distance=2.4, roll=-50) mlab.savefig("Y_%i_%i.jpg" % (l, m)) mlab.show() ==References== ==External links==

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