VMTKMESHVIEWER(1)

💖 NAME 💖

vmtkmeshviewer — it's a vmtk script, bestie, and its whole government name is also vmtkmeshviewer 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so real talk: vmtkmeshviewer does the automatic piping thing, and it also does the parsing options thing — both of those are literally the script's name glued onto them, iconic 💅. But what it's actually here for?

vmtkmeshviewer : display a mesh 👑 periodt.

Here's everything it can take and everything it can hand back 🌸

💜 Input arguments

• -id — Id (str,1); default=0: the script id, iykyk 🎀
• -handle — Self (self,1): a handle to self, lowkey just itself 🪞
• -disabled — Disabled (bool,1); default=0: turn this on and it disables execution and piping, so nothing runs 🫥
• -i — Mesh (vtkUnstructuredGrid,1): this is the input mesh, the main character of the whole operation ✨
• -ifile — MeshInputFileName (str,1): filename for the default Mesh reader, for when you'd rather pass a file than a live object 📄
• -renderer — vmtkRenderer (vmtkRenderer,1): an external renderer you can bring along, sharing is caring 🖥️
• -display — Display (bool,1); default=1: toggle rendering on and off 💫
• -opacity — Opacity (float,1) >= 0.0 and <= 1.0; default=1.0: how see-through the object is in the scene — 1.0 is fully solid, and no, you cannot go outside that range, the vibes are bounded bestie 🫧
• -array — ArrayName (str,1): the name of the array where the scalars you wanna display are stored 🎨
• -scalarrange — ScalarRange (float,2); default=[0.0, 0.0]: the range of the scalar map, and yes it takes two floats 📏
• -colormap — ColorMap (str,1) in ['rainbow', 'blackbody', 'cooltowarm', 'grayscale']; default=cooltowarm: pick your color map, choose your fighter 🌈
• -numberofcolors — NumberOfColors (int,1); default=256: how many colors live in the color map, 256 by default because of course 🎀
• -legend — Legend (bool,1); default=0: toggles the scalar bar, so you can actually read what the colors mean 👀
• -color — Color (float,3); default=[-1.0, -1.0, -1.0]: RGB color of the object in the scene, three floats for three channels 💅
• -flat — FlatInterpolation (bool,1); default=0: toggles flat vs. shaded surface display — flat is that crunchy faceted look, shaded is smooth ✨
• -ofile — MeshOutputFileName (str,1): filename for the default Mesh writer, for when you want the mesh saved somewhere after all this 📝

💖 Output arguments

• -id — Id (str,1); default=0: the script id again, it really said "and I'll say it twice" 💀
• -handle — Self (self,1): a handle to self, returned to you 🪞
• -o — Mesh (vtkUnstructuredGrid,1): the output mesh — your mesh, but out the other side 🔥

Heads up bestie: if you set -disabled to 1, execution and piping get disabled. That's the whole point of it. Don't be surprised when nothing happens 💀

That's the whole page, no crumbs left. Version vmtkmeshviewer 1.5, stamped April 2026 — mwah, slay, go display a mesh 🦋✨