Mayavi (3D scientific visualization) integration with nicegui

[anandjebakumar]

How easy/difficult would it be to integrate mayavi with nicegui? I really like the ability to integrate Matplotlib/Plotly plots and looks like three.js integration is also there to help with 3D scenes. Integrating mayavi would be a huge benefit for complex 3D scientific visualizations. Thanks for all you do!

[falkoschindler]

Hi @anandjebakumar,

I'm not sure about a NiceGUI integration of Mayavi. We would somehow need to extract the VTK rendering data and send it to the client. For static images this shouldn't be a problem. But for interactivity, we would need to run something like vkt.js on the client and communicate with the server.

[anandjebakumar]

How easy/difficult is this? Asking to see if I can contribute and if there's community interest in it.

[falkoschindler]

I don't think it's easy. But I don't know Mayavi and haven't worked with VTK yet, so I can't really tell how hard it might be.