Viewable¶

class menpo.visualize.base.Viewable[source]¶

Bases: object

Abstract interface for objects that can visualize themselves.

view(**kwargs)[source]¶

View the object using the default rendering engine figure handling. For example, the default behaviour for Matplotlib is that all draw commands are applied to the same figure object.

Parameters:

kwargs : dict

Passed through to specific rendering engine.

Returns:

viewer : Renderer

The renderer instantiated.

view_new(**kwargs)[source]¶

View the object on a new figure.

Parameters:

kwargs : dict

Passed through to specific rendering engine.

Returns:

viewer : Renderer

The renderer instantiated.

view_on(figure_id, **kwargs)[source]¶

View the object on a a specific figure specified by the given id.

Parameters:

figure_id : object

A unique identifier for a figure.

kwargs : dict

Passed through to specific rendering engine.

Returns:

viewer : Renderer

The renderer instantiated.