pyvista.PolyData.face_normals#

property PolyData.face_normals: pyvista_ndarray[source]#

Return the cell normals.

Alias to PolyData.cell_normals().

Returns:

pyvista.pyvista_ndarray: Array of face normals.

Examples

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> sphere = pv.Sphere()
>>> sphere.face_normals
pyvista_ndarray([[ 0.05413816,  0.00569015,  0.9985172 ],
                 [ 0.05177207,  0.01682176,  0.9985172 ],
                 [ 0.04714328,  0.02721819,  0.9985172 ],
                 ...,
                 [ 0.26742265, -0.02810723, -0.96316934],
                 [ 0.1617585 , -0.01700151, -0.9866839 ],
                 [ 0.1617585 , -0.01700151, -0.9866839 ]], dtype=float32)