Free Unified Rendering in Python

A software library for scientific visualization in Python.

General Information • Key Features • Installation • How to use • Credits • Friends & Support • Contribute • Citing

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General Information

• Website and Documentation: https://fury.gl
• Tutorials and examples: https://fury.gl/latest/auto_examples/index.html
• Blog: https://fury.gl/latest/blog.html
• Mailing list: https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/fury.python.org/
• Official source code repo: https://github.com/fury-gl/fury
• Download releases: https://pypi.org/project/fury/
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/fury-gl/fury/issues
• Free software: 3-clause BSD license
• Community: Come to chat on Discord

Key Features

• GPU-accelerated scientific visualization with pygfx and WebGPU.
• NumPy-based 3D actors and interactive volume slices.
• Built-in user interface components.
• Keyframe, camera, and timeline animation.
• GPU-based force-directed network visualization.
• Mesh, point, and line loading powered by Polyxios, with an extensive range of 3D mesh and geometry file extensions, including .obj, .ply, .stl, .off, .vtk, .vtp, and .vtu. See the full list of Polyxios-supported formats and extensions for format details and requirements.

Installation

The current development version of FURY requires Python 3.12 or newer. Python 3.12, 3.13, and 3.14 are supported stable versions, tested in blocking Linux, macOS, and Windows CI. Python 3.12 support will be removed in an upcoming FURY release.

Releases

pip install fury or conda install -c conda-forge fury

Published releases may have different Python requirements; see the package metadata for the release you install.

For optional Qt, Jupyter, and ImGui window backends:

pip install "fury[window]"

Development

Installation from source

Step 1. Get the latest source by cloning this repo:

git clone https://github.com/fury-gl/fury.git
cd fury

Step 2. Install requirements:

pip install -r requirements/default.txt

Step 3. Install fury

As a local project installation using:

pip install .

Or as an "editable" installation using:

pip install -e .

If you are developing fury you should go with editable installation.

Step 4: Enjoy!

For more information, see the development installation guide.

Testing

From the repository root (the directory containing pyproject.toml), install test suite requirements:

pip install -r requirements/test.txt

Launch the test suite from the same repository root:

pytest -svv fury

How to use

Start with Quick Visualization below.

Explore the full tutorials and examples gallery. Some examples require optional dependencies or download example data; follow the instructions in each tutorial.

Upgrading from VTK-based FURY 0.12.x? See the FURY 2 migration guide.

Credits

Please, go to contributors page to see who have been involved in the development of FURY.

Friends & Support

• DIPY
• Polyxios
• Intelligent Systems Engineering, IU
• Google Summer of Code

Contribute

We love contributions!

You've discovered a bug or something else you want to change - excellent! Create an issue!

See the contribution guide for development setup and contribution guidelines.

Citing

If you are using FURY in your work then do cite this paper. By citing FURY, you are helping sustain the FURY ecosystem.

Eleftherios Garyfallidis, Serge Koudoro, Javier Guaje, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Soham Biswas,
David Reagan, Nasim Anousheh, Filipi Silva, Geoffrey Fox, and Fury Contributors.
"FURY: advanced scientific visualization." Journal of Open Source Software 6, no. 64 (2021): 3384.
https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03384

    @article{Garyfallidis2021,
        doi = {10.21105/joss.03384},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03384},
        year = {2021},
        publisher = {The Open Journal},
        volume = {6},
        number = {64},
        pages = {3384},
        author = {Eleftherios Garyfallidis and Serge Koudoro and Javier Guaje and Marc-Alexandre Côté and Soham Biswas and David Reagan and Nasim Anousheh and Filipi Silva and Geoffrey Fox and Fury Contributors},
        title = {FURY: advanced scientific visualization},
        journal = {Journal of Open Source Software}
    }