viz

Introduction

The viz package in pydy is designed to facilitate browser based animations for PyDy framework.

Typically the plugin is used to generate animations for multibody systems. The systems are defined with sympy.physics.mechanics, solved numerically with the codegen package and scipy, and then visualized with this package. But the required data for the animations can theorectically be generated by other methods and passed into a Scene object.

The frontend is based on three.js, a popular interface to the WebGraphics Library (WegGL). The package provides a Python wrapper for some basic functionality for Three.js i.e Geometries, Lights, Cameras etc.