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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/26/18 11:37 AM, Paul Korir wrote:<br>
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<p>Dear Prabhu,</p>
<p>Big favour to ask: could you build wheels for running VTK
headless i.e. offscreen rendering? I think the option to support
this is VTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA (see <a
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href="https://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Utilities/OffScreenRendering"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Utilities/OffScreenRendering</a>).</p>
<p>That would be a very big help. I've seen loads of queries on
how to do this but almost no clear solutions.</p>
<p>Then running VTK in headless mode would be as simple as first
doing:</p>
<p>pip install vtk-headless</p>
<p>... then you're off to the races!<br>
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I wish it were that easy but unfortunately it isn't. It would be
nicer still if this could be bundled into the same VTK wheels that
we currently build. Unfortunately, I do not have the bandwidth to
follow up with this right now. If VTK supported this easily enough
then I am happy to build the wheels and push them to pypi. :)<br>
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cheers,<br>
Prabhu<br>
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