ipycanvas 0.13.2

Interactive widgets library exposing the browser's Canvas API

ipycanvas

Interactive Canvas in Jupyter

ipycanvas is a lightweight, fast and stable library exposing the browser's Canvas API to IPython. It allows you to draw simple primitives directly from Python like text, lines, polygons, arcs, images etc. This simple toolset allows you to draw literally anything!

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Documentation

You can read the documentation following this link: https://ipycanvas.readthedocs.io

Questions?

If you have any question, or if you want to share what you do with ipycanvas, start a new discussion on Github!

Or join the gitter channel:

Installation

You can install using pip:

pip install ipycanvas orjson

Or using conda:

conda install -c conda-forge ipycanvas

And if you use jupyterlab <= 2:

conda install -c conda-forge yarn
jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager ipycanvas

A development installation guide, can be found here

Examples

Create John Conway's Game Of Life

Give a "hand-drawn" style to your drawings using the RoughCanvas

Draw Particles from IPython

Custom Sprites

Draw data directly from a NumPy array

Create your own plotting library fully in Python