trimesh.visual.color

color.py

Hold and deal with visual information about meshes.

There are lots of ways to encode visual information, and the goal of this architecture is to make it possible to define one, and then transparently get the others. The two general categories are:

  1. colors, defined for a face, vertex, or material

  2. textures, defined as an image and UV coordinates for each vertex

This module only implements diffuse colors at the moment.

Goals

  1. If nothing is defined sane defaults should be returned

  2. If a user alters or sets a value, that is considered user data and should be saved and treated as such.

  3. Only one ‘mode’ of visual (vertex or face) is allowed at a time and setting or altering a value should automatically change the mode.

class trimesh.visual.color.ColorVisuals(mesh=None, face_colors=None, vertex_colors=None)

Bases: trimesh.visual.base.Visuals

Store color information about a mesh.

concatenate(other, *args)

Concatenate two or more ColorVisuals objects into a single object.

Parameters

  • other (ColorVisuals) – Object to append

  • *args (ColorVisuals objects) –

Returns

result – object and others in the order it was passed.

Return type

ColorVisuals object containing information from current

copy()

Return a copy of the current ColorVisuals object.

Returns

copied – Contains the same information as self

Return type

ColorVisuals

crc()

A checksum for the current visual object and its parent mesh.

Returns

crc – Checksum of data in visual object and its parent mesh

Return type

int

property defined

Are any colors defined for the current mesh.

Returns

defined – Are colors defined or not.

Return type

bool

property face_colors

Colors defined for each face of a mesh.

If no colors are defined, defaults are returned.

Returns

colors

Return type

(len(mesh.faces), 4) uint8, RGBA color for each face

face_subset(face_index)

Given a mask of face indices, return a sliced version.

Parameters

face_index ((n,) int, mask for faces) – (n,) bool, mask for faces

Returns

visual

Return type

ColorVisuals object containing a subset of faces.

property kind

What color mode has been set.

Returns

mode – One of (‘face’, ‘vertex’, None)

Return type

str or None

property main_color

What is the most commonly occurring color.

Returns

color

Return type

(4,) uint8, most common color

to_texture()
property transparency

Does the current object contain any transparency.

Returns

transparency

Return type

bool, does the current visual contain transparency

update_faces(mask)

Apply a mask to remove or duplicate face properties

update_vertices(mask)

Apply a mask to remove or duplicate vertex properties.

property vertex_colors

Return the colors for each vertex of a mesh

Returns

colors

Return type

(len(mesh.vertices), 4) uint8, color for each vertex

class trimesh.visual.color.VertexColor(colors=None, obj=None)

Bases: trimesh.visual.base.Visuals

Create a simple visual object to hold just vertex colors for objects such as PointClouds.

concatenate(other)

Concatenate this visual object with another VertexVisuals.

Parameters

other (VertexColors or ColorVisuals) – Other object to concatenate

Returns

concate – Object with both colors

Return type

VertexColor

copy()

Return a copy of the current visuals

crc()
property kind
update_faces(mask)
update_vertices(mask)
property vertex_colors
trimesh.visual.color.colors_to_materials(colors, count=None)

Convert a list of colors into a list of unique materials and material indexes.

Parameters

  • colors ((n, 3) or (n, 4) float) – RGB or RGBA colors

  • count (int) – Number of entities to apply color to

Returns

  • diffuse ((m, 4) int) – Colors

  • index ((count,) int) – Index of each color

trimesh.visual.color.face_to_vertex_color(mesh, face_colors, dtype=<class 'numpy.uint8'>)

Convert face colors into vertex colors.

Parameters

  • mesh (trimesh.Trimesh object) –

  • face_colors ((n, (3,4)) int, face colors) –

  • dtype (data type of output) –

Returns

vertex_colors

Return type

(m,4) dtype, colors for each vertex

trimesh.visual.color.hex_to_rgba(color)

Turn a string hex color to a (4,) RGBA color.

Parameters

color (str, hex color) –

Returns

rgba

Return type

(4,) np.uint8, RGBA color

trimesh.visual.color.interpolate(values, color_map=None, dtype=<class 'numpy.uint8'>)

Given a 1D list of values, return interpolated colors for the range.

Parameters

  • values ((n, ) float) – Values to be interpolated over

  • color_map (None, or str) – Key to a colormap contained in: matplotlib.pyplot.colormaps() e.g: ‘viridis’

Returns

interpolated – Interpolated RGBA colors

Return type

(n, 4) dtype

trimesh.visual.color.linear_color_map(values, color_range=None)

Linearly interpolate between two colors.

If colors are not specified the function will interpolate between 0.0 values as red and 1.0 as green.

Parameters

  • values ((n, ) float) – Values to interpolate

  • color_range (None, or (2, 4) uint8) – What colors should extrema be set to

Returns

colors – RGBA colors for interpolated values

Return type

(n, 4) uint8

trimesh.visual.color.random_color(dtype=<class 'numpy.uint8'>)

Return a random RGB color using datatype specified.

Parameters

dtype (numpy dtype of result) –

Returns

color

Return type

(4,) dtype, random color that looks OK

trimesh.visual.color.to_float(colors)

Convert integer colors to 0.0 - 1.0 floating point colors

Parameters

colors ((n, d) int) – Integer colors

Returns

as_float – Float colors 0.0 - 1.0

Return type

(n, d) float

trimesh.visual.color.to_rgba(colors, dtype=<class 'numpy.uint8'>)

Convert a single or multiple RGB colors to RGBA colors.

Parameters

colors ((n, 3) or (n, 4) array) – RGB or RGBA colors

Returns

colors – (4,) single RGBA color

Return type

(n, 4) list of RGBA colors

trimesh.visual.color.uv_to_color(uv, image)

Get the color in a texture image.

Parameters

  • uv ((n, 2) float) – UV coordinates on texture image

  • image (PIL.Image) – Texture image

Returns

colors – RGBA color at each of the UV coordinates

Return type

(n, 4) float

trimesh.visual.color.vertex_to_face_color(vertex_colors, faces)

Convert a list of vertex colors to face colors.

Parameters

  • vertex_colors ((n,(3,4)), colors) –

  • faces ((m,3) int, face indexes) –

Returns

face_colors

Return type

(m,4) colors