Installation

Requirements

• Numpy
• A backend GUI toolkit (see below)
• PyOpenGL (version 3.0.0 or higher, 3.0.2b2 or higher for py3k)

Windows users can get these requirements at Christoph Gohlke's site.

Optional requirements

• The OpenGL driver on your system should be version 2.0 or higher in order to render volumes and apply colormaps.
• For better rendering of text: FreeType libraries (Are usually already installed on Linux, Windows users can download it from the visvis download page.
• An image read/write toolkit: imageio or PIL

Supported backend GUI toolkits

• PySide (since version 1.7)
• PyQt4
• wxPython
• GTK
• pyFLTK

Installation

There are several ways to get visvis:

• Run pip install visvis
• Download the latest zip-file and run "python setup.py install".
• Download the latest zip-file and put the directory contained within in a directory on your PYTHONPATH.
• Check out the latest source from Mercurial in a directory on your PYTHONPATH.
• Windows users can download the installer.

Running on Wayland

If you're on Linux with the Wayland compositor, you'll need to add these lines before importing Qt:

import os
os.environ['WAYLAND_DISPLAY'] = ''
os.environ['QT_QPA_PLATFORM'] = ''