FURY: advanced scientific visualization
Eleftherios Garyfallidis, Serge Koudoro, Javier Guaje, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Soham Biswas, David Reagan, Nasim Anousheh, Filipi N. Silva, Geoffrey Fox, Fury Contributors · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2021
Free Unified Rendering in pYthon (FURY), is a community-driven, open-source, and highperformance scientific visualization library that harnesses the graphics processing unit (GPU) for improved speed, precise interactivity, and visual clarity.FURY provides an integrated API in Python that allows UI elements and 3D graphics to be programmed together.FURY is designed to be fully interoperable with most projects of the Pythonic ecosystem that use NumPy (C.R. Harris et al., 2020) for processing numerical arrays.In addition, FURY uses core parts of VTK (Schroeder et al., 1996) and enhances them using customized shaders.FURY provides access to the latest technologies such as raytracing, signed distance functionality, physically based rendering, and collision detection for direct use in research.More importantly, FURY enables students and researchers to script their own 3D animations in Python and simulate dynamic environments.