Mayavi/mlab: Plot Triangles With Colour Data Per Triangle, Not Per Vertex

If one uses the function triangular_mesh one can pass a set of triangles, given as lists of indices, the vertex positions and a set of data to to assign colours to the vertices. T

Solution 1:

This was asked on the scipy mailing list too.

You can't do it with triangular_mesh, but you can if you make a generic surface using a triangular mesh as a source.

s = mlab.pipeline.triangular_mesh_source(x,y,z,triangles)
s.data.cell_data.scalars = .... # Your data here.surf = mlab.pipeline.surface(s)
surf.contours.filled_contours = True

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