pyvista.Tetrahedron#

Tetrahedron(radius=1.0, center=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0))[source]#

Create a tetrahedron of a given size.

A tetrahedron is composed of four congruent equilateral triangles.

Parameters:
radiusfloat, default: 1.0

The radius of the circumscribed sphere for the tetrahedron.

centersequence[float], default: (0.0, 0.0, 0.0)

Three-length sequence defining the center of the tetrahedron.

Returns:
pyvista.PolyData

Mesh for the tetrahedron. Cell scalars are defined that assign integer labels to each face (with array name "FaceIndex").

Examples

Create and plot a tetrahedron.

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> tetra = pv.Tetrahedron()
>>> tetra.plot(categories=True)
https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/17d70ea557cfac61e607cf04ad7df13b92ff15f6/eaabb/_images/pyvista-tetrahedron-1_00_00.png

See Platonic Solids for more examples using this filter.