Pyvista: Image as background

[dennissergeev]

Description

I'm probably being too lazy, but I haven't found any example of setting a background of Plotter to an image. Is it possible at all? Plotter.set_background() seems to work only with colours.

Thanks.

[banesullivan]

Nope, you’re not being lazy! we don’t have this implemented at the moment.

Intermixing the needed code in this example could do it http://kwwidgets.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Python/BackgroundImage

Also note this requires layered rendering which is a very stale PR: https://github.com/pyvista/pyvista/pull/367

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[dennissergeev]

Thank you for the quick response!
The VTK example seems a bit intimidating, but I'll give it a go. It would be great to have it implemented in pyvista of course...

[GuillaumeFavelier]

If you don't mind I can experiment with this one, I have a prototype running:

[banesullivan]

@GuillaumeFavelier! Super cool! I'd love to see your PR for this or if it fits into #367

[dennissergeev]

Thanks @GuillaumeFavelier ! This is brilliant!