Orthogonal Slices

View three orthogonal slices from a mesh.

Use the pyvista.DataSetFilters.slice_orthogonal() filter to create these slices simultaneously.

from __future__ import annotations

import pyvista as pv
from pyvista import examples

mesh = examples.download_embryo()
mesh.bounds

(0.0, 255.0, 0.0, 255.0, 0.0, 255.0)

Create three slices. Easily control their locations with the x, y, and z arguments.

slices = mesh.slice_orthogonal(x=100, z=75)

cpos = [
    (540.9115516905358, -617.1912234499737, 180.5084853429126),
    (128.31920055083387, 126.4977720785509, 111.77682599082095),
    (-0.1065160140819035, 0.032750075477590124, 0.9937714884722322),
]
dargs = dict(cmap='gist_ncar_r')

p = pv.Plotter()
p.add_mesh(slices, **dargs)
p.show_grid()
p.show(cpos=cpos)

Static Scene

Interactive Scene

p = pv.Plotter(shape=(2, 2))
# XYZ - show 3D scene first
p.subplot(1, 1)
p.add_mesh(slices, **dargs)
p.show_grid()
p.camera_position = cpos
# XY
p.subplot(0, 0)
p.add_mesh(slices, **dargs)
p.show_grid()
p.camera_position = 'xy'
p.enable_parallel_projection()
# ZY
p.subplot(0, 1)
p.add_mesh(slices, **dargs)
p.show_grid()
p.camera_position = 'zy'
p.enable_parallel_projection()
# XZ
p.subplot(1, 0)
p.add_mesh(slices, **dargs)
p.show_grid()
p.camera_position = 'xz'
p.enable_parallel_projection()

p.show()

Static Scene

Interactive Scene