LaTeX Text Overlay

Render LaTeX text in the viewport

Description

Add LaTeX text labels to your OVITO Pro renders. Rendering is based on matplotlib's text labels.

Parameters

GUI name	Python name	Description	Default Value
Text	text	Text to be rendered in LaTeX.	"\exp^{i \pi} + 1 = 0"
Font	font	Font of the text. The list of available fonts is platform dependent / matplotlib version dependent.	The (alphabetically) first font is used.
Font size	font_size	Font size of the text.	50
Text color	text_color	Color of the text.	(0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
X position	px	X position of the text given in relative coordinates, where 0.0 corresponds to the left edge of the viewport and 1.0 to the right edge.	0.5
Y position	py	Y position of the text given in relative coordinates, where 0.0 corresponds to the bottom edge of the viewport and 1.0 to the top edge.	0.5

Example

Installation

• OVITO Pro integrated Python interpreter:

  ovitos -m pip install --user git+https://github.com/nnn911/LaTeXTextOverlay.git
  

  The --user option is recommended and installs the package in the user's site directory.

• Other Python interpreters or Conda environments:

  pip install git+https://github.com/nnn911/LaTeXTextOverlay.git
  

Technical information / dependencies

• Tested on OVITO version 3.10.2

Contact

Daniel Utt [email protected]