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MayaVi 2

The MayaVi 2 visualization tool proved to be a high performance interface around the VTK toolkit. Enthought.com has further wrapped the VTK python wrapper with traits, described on their site as:
A trait is a type definition that can be used for normal Python object attributes, giving the attributes some additional characteristics:
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VTK

While developing an application that required a robust visualization module, I didn’t want to go down the same path I have previously trod many times: OpenGL + pyOpenGL. Not that the combination isn’t robust, it’s just a lot of work to build up the application every time. Instead I used the VTK toolkit. I had [...]