K3D-tools/K3D-jupyter
WebGL 3D plotting for Jupyter: meshes, isosurfaces, volumes, voxels and point clouds from NumPy arrays, with a path-traced cinematic renderer. observed · 2026-09-03
Health v2 · maintenance only
100/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 99
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 14
- age_days: 3974
- days_rel: 4
- days_push: 0
- n_releases_24m: 4
Adoption not part of the score
1034 stars · 124 forks observed · 2026-09-03
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
K3D-jupyter is a Python library for creating interactive 3D plots backed by WebGL inside Jupyter Notebook, JupyterLab, and Google Colab. It offers a high-level matplotlib-like API for surfaces, isosurfaces, voxels, meshes, point clouds, and volume rendering, with VTK interoperability.
Use cases
- plot 3d point clouds in jupyter
- interactive volume rendering in a notebook
- visualize vtk data in jupyterlab
- create 3d surface and isosurface plots in python
- export interactive 3d visualization as standalone html
- render voxel grids in a jupyter notebook
When to choose
- you need interactive WebGL-backed 3D visualization inside Jupyter or Colab
- you want a simple high-level API like matplotlib for 3D plotting
- you need VTK interoperability or standalone HTML export
When to avoid
- you need publication-quality static 3D figures rather than interactive widgets
- you are not working in a notebook or browser environment
- you need full-featured general-purpose 3D modeling or game rendering
Facets
library · maturity active
data-visualization graphics data-visualization data-science web-development python browser jupyter webgl 3d-plots vtk volume-rendering point-clouds notebook-widget web-server
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/K3D-tools/K3D-jupyter · fetched 2026-09-03 · a9b6b2a0fc04
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| K3D-tools/K3D-jupyter | main | 100 |
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