ipycanvas
ipycanvas is a lightweight, fast and stable library exposing the browser's Canvas API to Python. 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!
Documentation
You can read the documentation following this link: https://ipycanvas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Examples
Create John Conway's Game Of Life
Draw Particles from IPython
Custom Sprites
Draw data directly from a NumPy array
Create your own plotting library fully in Python
Installation
You can install using pip
:
pip install ipycanvas
Or using conda
:
conda install -c conda-forge ipycanvas
And if you use jupyterlab:
jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager ipycanvas
If you are using Jupyter Notebook 5.2 or earlier, you may also need to enable
the nbextension:
jupyter nbextension enable --py [--sys-prefix|--user|--system] ipycanvas
Installation from sources
You can install using pip
:
git clone https://github.com/martinRenou/ipycanvas
cd ipycanvas
pip install .
And if you use jupyterlab:
jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager
jupyter labextension install .
And you use the classical Jupyter:
jupyter nbextension install --py --symlink --sys-prefix ipycanvas
jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix ipycanvas