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Cartographic rendering and mesh analytics powered by PyVista
+
+ 😍 Bring your data to life! 😍
+
+
+[🎥 WW3 SMC time-series](https://github.com/bjlittle/geovista/assets/2051656/876d877e-a6fa-42ff-8153-08c41ff8a19e)
+
+What is this?
+
+GeoVista is built on the shoulders of giants, namely [PyVista](https://docs.pyvista.org/version/stable/) and
+[VTK](https://vtk.org/documentation/), thus allowing it to easily leverage the power of the GPU.
+
+As a result, it offers a paradigm shift in rendering performance and interactive user experience, as demonstrated by
+this realtime, time-series animation of WAVEWATCH III® third-generation wave model (**WAVE**-height, **WAT**er depth
+and **C**urrent **H**indcasting), developed at [NOAA](https://www.noaa.gov/)/[NCEP](https://www.weather.gov/ncep/),
+quasi-unstructured Spherical Multi-Cell (SMC) grid data of Sea Surface Wave Significant Height located on cell faces.
+
+Like what you see? Loads more information is available below, so keep on scrolling! 🚀
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+
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| 🛡️ Status | [](https://github.com/bjlittle/geovista/issues/167) |
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-
## Motivation
The goal of GeoVista is simple; to complement [PyVista](https://docs.pyvista.org/index.html) with a convenient
@@ -40,22 +59,21 @@ et al, which specialise in preparing your spatial data for visualisation. Rather
choice of tool to you the user, as we want GeoVista to remain as flexible and open-ended as possible to the entire
Scientific Python community.
-Simply put, "*GeoVista is to PyVista*", as "*Cartopy is to Matplotlib*". Well, that's the aspiration.
+Simply put, "*[GeoVista](https://geovista.readthedocs.io/) is to
+[PyVista](https://docs.pyvista.org/)*", as
+"*[Cartopy](https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/) is to
+[Matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/)*". Well, that's the aspiration.
## Installation
GeoVista is available on both [conda-forge](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/geovista) and [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/geovista/).
-We recommend using [mamba](https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba) to install GeoVista 👍
+We recommend using [conda](https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/index.html) to install GeoVista 👍
-### Mamba
+### Conda
GeoVista is available on [conda-forge](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/geovista), and can be easily installed with
-[mamba](https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba):
-```shell
-mamba install -c conda-forge geovista
-```
-or alternatively with [conda](https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/index.html):
+[conda](https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/index.html):
```shell
conda install -c conda-forge geovista
```
@@ -90,7 +108,7 @@ cd geovista
```
Create the `geovista-dev` conda development environment:
```shell
-mamba env create --file requirements/geovista.yml
+conda env create --file requirements/geovista.yml
```
Now activate the environment and install the `main` development branch of GeoVista:
```shell
@@ -142,7 +160,7 @@ base layer, and the gorgeous perceptually uniform [cmocean balance](https://matp
colormap.
-🗒
+🗒 click for code
```python
import geovista as gv
@@ -170,17 +188,17 @@ plotter.show()
```
-
+
#### Finite Volume Community Ocean Model
Now, let's visualise the bathymetry of the
[Plymouth Sound and Tamar River](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Plymouth+Sound/@50.3337382,-4.2215988,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x486c93516bbce307:0xded7654eaf4f8f83!8m2!3d50.3638359!4d-4.1441365)
-from an [FVCOM](http://fvcom.smast.umassd.edu/fvcom/) **unstructured** mesh, as kindly provided by the
+from an [FVCOM](https://www.fvcom.org/) **unstructured** mesh, as kindly provided by the
[Plymouth Marine Laboratory](https://pml.ac.uk/) using the lush [cmocean deep](https://matplotlib.org/cmocean/#deep) colormap.
-🗒
+🗒 click for code
```python
import geovista as gv
@@ -213,7 +231,7 @@ plotter.show()
```
-
+
#### CF UGRID
@@ -231,7 +249,7 @@ In the meantime, let's showcase our basic projection support with some high-reso
base layer.
-🗒
+🗒 click for code
```python
import geovista as gv
@@ -262,7 +280,7 @@ plotter.show()
```
-
+
Using the same **unstructured** LAM data, reproject to
[Equidistant Cylindrical](https://proj.org/operations/projections/eqc.html) but this time using a
@@ -273,7 +291,7 @@ and a
base layer.
-🗒
+🗒 click for code
```python
import cartopy.crs as ccrs
@@ -306,7 +324,7 @@ plotter.show()
```
-
+
#### LFRic Cube-Sphere
@@ -317,7 +335,7 @@ Now render a [Met Office LFRic](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/m
[cmocean thermal](https://matplotlib.org/cmocean/#thermal) colormap.
-🗒
+🗒 click for code
```python
import geovista as gv
@@ -346,7 +364,7 @@ plotter.show()
```
-
+
#### UM ORCA2
@@ -356,7 +374,7 @@ using Met Office Unified Model (UM) ORCA2 Sea Water Potential Temperature data,
[1:50m Natural Earth I](https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-raster-data/50m-natural-earth-1/) base layer.
-🗒
+🗒 click for code
```python
import geovista as gv
@@ -384,7 +402,7 @@ plotter.show()
```
-
+
#### OISST AVHRR
@@ -394,7 +412,7 @@ Now let's render a [NOAA/NCEI Optimum Interpolation SST](https://www.ncei.noaa.g
[NASA Blue Marble](https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/collection/1484/blue-marble) base layer.
-🗒
+🗒 click for code
```python
import geovista as gv
@@ -422,7 +440,7 @@ plotter.show()
```
-
+
#### DYNAMICO
@@ -434,7 +452,7 @@ model uses hexagonal and pentagonal cells, and is a new dynamical core for
[10m Natural Earth coastlines](https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors/10m-coastline/).
-🗒
+🗒 click for code
```python
import geovista as gv
@@ -457,19 +475,7 @@ plotter.show()
```
-
-
-## Unreal Reels
-
-GeoVista is built on the shoulders of giants, namely [PyVista](https://docs.pyvista.org/version/stable/) and
-[VTK](https://vtk.org/documentation/), thus allowing it to easily leverage the power of the GPU.
-
-As a result, it offers a paradigm shift in rendering performance and interactive user experience, as demonstrated by
-this realtime, time-series animation of WAVEWATCH III® third-generation wave model (**WAVE**-height, **WAT**er depth
-and **C**urrent **H**indcasting), developed at [NOAA](https://www.noaa.gov/)/[NCEP](https://www.weather.gov/ncep/),
-quasi-unstructured Spherical Multi-Cell (SMC) grid data of Sea Surface Wave Significant Height located on cell faces.
-
-[🎥 WW3 SMC time-series](https://github.com/bjlittle/geovista/assets/2051656/876d877e-a6fa-42ff-8153-08c41ff8a19e)
+
## Further Examples