trimesh.scene

class trimesh.scene.Camera(name=None, resolution=None, focal=None, fov=None, z_near=0.01, z_far=1000.0)

Bases: object

property K

Get the intrinsic matrix for the Camera object.

Returns:

K – Intrinsic matrix for camera

Return type:

(3, 3) float

__init__(name=None, resolution=None, focal=None, fov=None, z_near=0.01, z_far=1000.0)

Create a new Camera object that stores camera intrinsic and extrinsic parameters.

TODO: skew is not supported TODO: cx and cy that are not half of width and height

Parameters:
  • name (str or None) – Name for camera to be used as node name

  • resolution ((2,) int) – Pixel size in (height, width)

  • focal ((2,) float) – Focal length in pixels. Either pass this OR FOV but not both. focal = (K[0][0], K[1][1])

  • fov ((2,) float) – Field of view (fovx, fovy) in degrees

  • z_near (float) – What is the closest

angles()

Get ray spherical coordinates in radians.

Returns:

angles – Ray spherical coordinate angles in radians.

Return type:

(n, 2) float

copy()

Safely get a copy of the current camera.

property focal

Get the focal length in pixels for the camera.

Returns:

focal – Focal length in pixels

Return type:

(2,) float

property fov

Get the field of view in degrees.

Returns:

fov – XY field of view in degrees

Return type:

(2,) float

look_at(points, **kwargs)

Generate transform for a camera to keep a list of points in the camera’s field of view.

Parameters:
  • points ((n, 3) float) – Points in space

  • rotation (None, or (4, 4) float) – Rotation matrix for initial rotation

  • distance (None or float) – Distance from camera to center

  • center (None, or (3,) float) – Center of field of view.

Returns:

transform – Transformation matrix from world to camera

Return type:

(4, 4) float

property resolution

Get the camera resolution in pixels.

Returns:

Camera resolution in pixels

Return type:

resolution (2,) float

to_rays()

Calculate ray direction vectors.

Will return one ray per pixel, as set in self.resolution.

Returns:

vectors – Ray direction vectors in camera frame with z == -1

Return type:

(n, 3) float

class trimesh.scene.Scene(geometry: Geometry | Sequence[Geometry] | ndarray[Any, dtype[Geometry]] | dict[str, Geometry] | None = None, base_frame: str = 'world', metadata: dict | None = None, graph: SceneGraph | None = None, camera: Camera | None = None, lights: Sequence[Light] | None = None, camera_transform: ndarray[Any, dtype[_ScalarType_co]] | None = None)

Bases: Geometry3D

A simple scene graph which can be rendered directly via pyglet/openGL or through other endpoints such as a raytracer. Meshes are added by name, which can then be moved by updating transform in the transform tree.

__init__(geometry: Geometry | Sequence[Geometry] | ndarray[Any, dtype[Geometry]] | dict[str, Geometry] | None = None, base_frame: str = 'world', metadata: dict | None = None, graph: SceneGraph | None = None, camera: Camera | None = None, lights: Sequence[Light] | None = None, camera_transform: ndarray[Any, dtype[_ScalarType_co]] | None = None)

Create a new Scene object.

Parameters:
  • geometry (Trimesh, Path2D, Path3D PointCloud or list) – Geometry to initially add to the scene

  • base_frame – Name of base frame

  • metadata – Any metadata about the scene

  • graph – A passed transform graph to use

  • camera (Camera or None) – A passed camera to use

  • lights ([trimesh.scene.lighting.Light] or None) – A passed lights to use

  • camera_transform – Homogeneous (4, 4) camera transform in the base frame

add_geometry(geometry: Geometry | Sequence[Geometry] | ndarray[Any, dtype[Geometry]] | dict[str, Geometry], node_name: str | None = None, geom_name: str | None = None, parent_node_name: str | None = None, transform: ndarray[Any, dtype[_ScalarType_co]] | None = None, metadata: dict | None = None)

Add a geometry to the scene.

If the mesh has multiple transforms defined in its metadata, they will all be copied into the TransformForest of the current scene automatically.

Parameters:
  • geometry (Trimesh, Path2D, Path3D PointCloud or list) – Geometry to initially add to the scene

  • node_name (None or str) – Name of the added node.

  • geom_name (None or str) – Name of the added geometry.

  • parent_node_name (None or str) – Name of the parent node in the graph.

  • transform (None or (4, 4) float) – Transform that applies to the added node.

  • metadata (None or dict) – Optional metadata for the node.

Returns:

node_name – Name of single node in self.graph (passed in) or None if node was not added (eg. geometry was null or a Scene).

Return type:

str

apply_transform(transform)

Apply a transform to all children of the base frame without modifying any geometry.

Parameters:

transform ((4, 4)) – Homogeneous transformation matrix.

property area: float

What is the summed area of every geometry which has area.

Returns:

area – Summed area of every instanced geometry

Return type:

float

property bounds: ndarray[Any, dtype[float64]] | None

Return the overall bounding box of the scene.

Returns:

bounds – Position of [min, max] bounding box Returns None if no valid bounds exist

Return type:

(2, 3) float or None

property bounds_corners: dict[str, ndarray[Any, dtype[float64]]]

Get the post-transform AABB for each node which has geometry defined.

Returns:

Bounds for each node with vertices:

{node_name : (2, 3) float}

Return type:

corners

property camera: Camera

Get the single camera for the scene. If not manually set one will abe automatically generated.

Returns:

camera – Camera object defined for the scene

Return type:

trimesh.scene.Camera

camera_rays() tuple[ndarray[Any, dtype[float64]], ndarray[Any, dtype[float64]], ndarray[Any, dtype[int64]]]

Calculate the trimesh.scene.Camera origin and ray direction vectors. Returns one ray per pixel as set in camera.resolution

Returns:

  • origin ((n, 3) float) – Ray origins in space

  • vectors ((n, 3) float) – Ray direction unit vectors in world coordinates

  • pixels ((n, 2) int) – Which pixel does each ray correspond to in an image

property camera_transform

Get camera transform in the base frame.

Returns:

camera_transform – Camera transform in the base frame

Return type:

(4, 4) float

property center_mass: ndarray[Any, dtype[_ScalarType_co]]

Find the center of mass for every instance in the scene.

Returns:

center_mass – The center of mass of the scene

Return type:

(3,) float

property centroid: ndarray[Any, dtype[float64]] | None

Return the center of the bounding box for the scene.

Returns:

centroid – Point for center of bounding box

Return type:

  1. float

convert_units(desired: str, guess: bool = False) Scene

If geometry has units defined convert them to new units.

Returns a new scene with geometries and transforms scaled.

Parameters:
  • desired (str) – Desired final unit system: ‘inches’, ‘mm’, etc.

  • guess (bool) – Is the converter allowed to guess scale when models don’t have it specified in their metadata.

Returns:

scaled – Copy of scene with scaling applied and units set for every model

Return type:

trimesh.Scene

property convex_hull

The convex hull of the whole scene.

Returns:

hull – Trimesh object which is a convex hull of all meshes in scene

Return type:

trimesh.Trimesh

copy() Scene

Return a deep copy of the current scene

Returns:

copied – Copy of the current scene

Return type:

trimesh.Scene

deduplicated() Scene

Return a new scene where each unique geometry is only included once and transforms are discarded.

Returns:

dedupe – One copy of each unique geometry from scene

Return type:

Scene

delete_geometry(names: set | str | Sequence) None

Delete one more multiple geometries from the scene and also remove any node in the transform graph which references it.

Parameters:

name (hashable) – Name that references self.geometry

dump(concatenate: bool = False) Geometry | list[Geometry]

Append all meshes in scene freezing transforms.

Parameters:

concatenate – If True, concatenate results into single mesh

Returns:

dumped – Depending on what the scene contains. If concatenate then some geometry may be dropped if it doesn’t match.

Return type:

(n,) Trimesh, Path2D, Path3D, PointCloud

property duplicate_nodes: list[list[str]]

Return a sequence of node keys of identical meshes.

Will include meshes with different geometry but identical spatial hashes as well as meshes repeated by self.nodes.

Returns:

Keys of self.graph that represent identical geometry

Return type:

duplicates

explode(vector=None, origin=None) None

Explode the current scene in-place around a point and vector.

Parameters:
  • vector ((3,) float or float) – Explode radially around a direction vector or spherically

  • origin ((3,) float) – Point to explode around

export(file_obj=None, file_type=None, **kwargs)

Export a snapshot of the current scene.

Parameters:
  • file_obj (str, file-like, or None) – File object to export to

  • file_type (str or None) – What encoding to use for meshes IE: dict, dict64, stl

Returns:

export – Only returned if file_obj is None

Return type:

bytes

property extents: ndarray[Any, dtype[float64]] | None

Return the axis aligned box size of the current scene or None if the scene is empty.

Returns:

Bounding box sides length or None for empty scene.

Return type:

extents

property geometry_identifiers: dict[str, str]

Look up geometries by identifier hash.

Returns:

{Identifier hash: key in self.geometry}

Return type:

identifiers

property has_camera: bool
property is_empty: bool

Does the scene have anything in it.

Returns:

True if nothing is in the scene

Return type:

is_empty

property is_valid: bool

Is every geometry connected to the root node.

Returns:

is_valid – Does every geometry have a transform

Return type:

bool

property lights: list[Light]

Get a list of the lights in the scene. If nothing is set it will generate some automatically.

Returns:

lights – Lights in the scene.

Return type:

[trimesh.scene.lighting.Light]

property moment_inertia

Return the moment of inertia of the current scene with respect to the center of mass of the current scene.

Returns:

inertia – Inertia with respect to cartesian axis at scene.center_mass

Return type:

(3, 3) float

moment_inertia_frame(transform)

Return the moment of inertia of the current scene relative to a transform from the base frame.

Parameters transform : (4, 4) float

Homogeneous transformation matrix.

Returns:

inertia – Inertia tensor at requested frame.

Return type:

(3, 3) float

rezero() None

Move the current scene so that the AABB of the whole scene is centered at the origin.

Does this by changing the base frame to a new, offset base frame.

save_image(resolution=None, **kwargs) bytes

Get a PNG image of a scene.

Parameters:
  • resolution ((2,) int) – Resolution to render image

  • **kwargs – Passed to SceneViewer constructor

Returns:

png – Render of scene as a PNG

Return type:

bytes

property scale: float

The approximate scale of the mesh

Returns:

scale – The mean of the bounding box edge lengths

Return type:

float

scaled(scale: float | Buffer | _SupportsArray[dtype[Any]] | _NestedSequence[_SupportsArray[dtype[Any]]] | bool | int | complex | str | bytes | _NestedSequence[bool | int | float | complex | str | bytes]) Scene

Return a copy of the current scene, with meshes and scene transforms scaled to the requested factor.

Parameters:

scale (float or (3,) float) – Factor to scale meshes and transforms

Returns:

scaled – A copy of the current scene but scaled

Return type:

trimesh.Scene

set_camera(angles=None, distance=None, center=None, resolution=None, fov=None) Camera

Create a camera object for self.camera, and add a transform to self.graph for it.

If arguments are not passed sane defaults will be figured out which show the mesh roughly centered.

Parameters:
  • angles ((3,) float) – Initial euler angles in radians

  • distance (float) – Distance from centroid

  • center ((3,) float) – Point camera should be center on

  • camera (Camera object) – Object that stores camera parameters

show(viewer=None, **kwargs)

Display the current scene.

Parameters:
  • viewer (Union[str, callable, None]) – What kind of viewer to use, such as ‘gl’ to open a pyglet window, ‘notebook’ for a jupyter notebook or None

  • kwargs (dict) – Includes smooth, which will turn on or off automatic smooth shading

strip_visuals() None

Strip visuals from every Trimesh geometry and set them to an empty ColorVisuals.

subscene(node: str) Scene

Get part of a scene that succeeds a specified node.

Parameters:

node – Hashable key in scene.graph

Returns:

Partial scene generated from current.

Return type:

subscene

property triangles: ndarray[Any, dtype[float64]]

Return a correctly transformed polygon soup of the current scene.

Returns:

triangles – Triangles in space

Return type:

(n, 3, 3) float

property triangles_node

Which node of self.graph does each triangle come from.

Returns:

triangles_index – Node name for each triangle

Return type:

(len(self.triangles),)

property units: str | None

Get the units for every model in the scene. If the scene has mixed units or no units this will return None.

Returns:

Units for every model in the scene or None if there are no units or mixed units

Return type:

units

property volume: float64

What is the summed volume of every geometry which has volume

Returns:

volume – Summed area of every instanced geometry

Return type:

float

trimesh.scene.split_scene(geometry, **kwargs)

Given a geometry, list of geometries, or a Scene return them as a single Scene object.

Parameters:

geometry (splittable)

Returns:

scene

Return type:

trimesh.Scene