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Line Segments¶
Display line segments. Can be useful e.g. for visializing vector fields.

import numpy as np
from wgpu.gui.auto import WgpuCanvas, run
import pygfx as gfx
canvas = WgpuCanvas()
renderer = gfx.WgpuRenderer(canvas)
scene = gfx.Scene()
x = np.linspace(20, 980, 200, dtype=np.float32)
y = np.sin(x / 30) * 4
positions = np.column_stack([x, y, np.zeros_like(x)])
colors = np.random.uniform(0, 1, (x.size, 4)).astype(np.float32)
colors[:, 3] = 1
line = gfx.Line(
gfx.Geometry(positions=positions, colors=colors),
gfx.LineSegmentMaterial(thickness=6.0, color_mode="face", map=gfx.cm.viridis),
)
scene.add(line)
camera = gfx.OrthographicCamera(maintain_aspect=False)
camera.show_rect(0, 1000, -5, 5)
controller = gfx.PanZoomController(camera, register_events=renderer)
if __name__ == "__main__":
canvas.request_draw(lambda: renderer.render(scene, camera))
run()
Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.422 seconds)