pyvista.VTKDataSetReader

class VTKDataSetReader(*args, **kwargs)

VTK Data Set Reader for .vtk files.

Notes

This reader calls ReadAllScalarsOn, ReadAllColorScalarsOn, ReadAllNormalsOn, ReadAllTCoordsOn, ReadAllVectorsOn, and ReadAllFieldsOn on the underlying vtkDataSetReader.

Examples

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> from pyvista import examples
>>> filename = examples.download_brain(load=False)
>>> filename.split("/")[-1]  # omit the path
'brain.vtk'
>>> reader = pv.get_reader(filename)
>>> mesh = reader.read()
>>> sliced_mesh = mesh.slice('x')
>>> sliced_mesh.plot(cpos='yz', show_scalar_bar=False)

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