ambra 0.4.0

Ambra 3D Viewer

Ambra

Ambra is a pure-Python library based on PyXPG for creating 3D visualization and GUI tools. Ambra aims to be a tool that can be quickly installed in most environments and can bring any data from any source to the screen in as few lines of code as possible.

The main motivation for writing Ambra in Python is to minimize the effort and time required for setup and customizations. Compared to other 3D tools, Ambra is designed to allow full customization and configuration for the application needs. You can start using Ambra with some of the default primitives, UIs and controls, but as your application grows, you are encouraged to customize any big or small part of the library. For example, you can add your own primitives, shaders, render passes, data streaming systems, etc..

Even though Python isn't the fastest language, Ambra tries to provide fast primitives that limit the overhead of the interpreter. This includes supporting modern GPU features like asynchronous streaming, GPU driven rendering, and bindless resources.

Ambra has minimal dependencies and should be easy to integrate into any Python 3.8+ environment alongside other packages.

Quickstart

The easiest way to install Ambra is from prebuilt wheels on Pypi:

pip install ambra

After the setup you can run the example scripts in examples/ to test the installation and learn more about the library.

Build

Ambra is still in development and changing rapidly, to get the latest version and for development, it is recommended to build from source both pyxpg and ambra:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/ramenguy99/xpg.git
cd xpg
pip install scikit-build-core
pip install -C cmake.build-type=Debug -C editable.rebuild=true  --no-build-isolation -ve .
cd ambra
pip install -e .

This will install pyxpg in debug and editable mode (automatically recompiling after changes) and ambra in editable mode.