trame-vtklocal

VTK Local Rendering using VTK/WASM to match server side rendering pipeline on the client side. The current code base is still at its infancy but we aim to make it the default implementation for local rendering using VTK/ParaView with trame.

License

This library is OpenSource and follow the Apache Software License

Installation

pip install trame-vtklocal

# We need a VTK that has its wasm counterpart
# This is the first version available with it
# For ParaView (not yet supported), VTK don't need to be installed
pip install "vtk==9.4.0rc2" --extra-index-url https://wheels.vtk.org

Development

Build and install the Vue components

cd vue-components
npm i
npm run build
cd -

Install the library

pip install -e .

Optionally, you can develop with bleeding edge VTK by following these steps. Make sure you've these tools 1. git 2. CMake 3. Ninja 4. Python 5. NodeJS >= 22.0.0: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager 6. Emscripten SDK: See https://emscripten.org/docs/getting_started/downloads.html#download-and-install

# Compile VTK for wasm32 architecture using emscripten. Build artifacts can be found in dev/vtk/build/wasm
./utils/build_vtk.sh -u https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk.git -b master -t wasm32 -p RelWithDebInfo

# Compile VTK with python wrappings using system C++ compiler. Build artifacts can be found in dev/vtk/build/py
./utils/build_vtk.sh -u https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk.git -b master -t py -p RelWithDebInfo

# Set environment variables
source ./utils/dev_environment.sh -b master -p RelWithDebInfo

Running examples

pip install trame trame-vtklocal trame-vuetify trame-vtk

# We need a VTK that has its wasm counterpart
# This is the first version available with it
# For ParaView (not yet supported), VTK don't need to be installed
pip install "vtk==9.3.20240810.dev0" --extra-index-url https://wheels.vtk.org

# regular trame app
python ./examples/vtk/cone.py

Some example are meant to test and validate WASM rendering. Some will default for remote rendering but if you want to force them to use WASM just run export USE_WASM=1 before executing them.

SharedArrayBuffer

To enable SharedArrayBuffer within trame you can just set the following on the server

server.http_headers.shared_array_buffer = True

This will download the threaded WASM version. Otherwise, the non-threaded version will be used as it does not require SharedArrayBuffer.