nmwsharp/polyscope

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A C++ & Python viewer for 3D data like meshes and point clouds

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Dominant language: C++
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 6, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted

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113 open issues indexed

Structure GUI improvements Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#228 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 19, 2023
Backface colors flipped when using different and custom backface shading Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#227 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 4, 2023
Feature request: Add 'subset selection' quantities for vertices/faces/points/etc Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#224 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 25, 2023
Python bindings crash when matplotlib is also used Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#219 · Opened May 17, 2023
Would you like to add SSAO/HBAO/HDAO, PBR into polyscope? Thanks! Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#217 · Opened May 11, 2023
Angle shift not work. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#216 · Opened May 3, 2023
Update geometry from UI parameter Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#215 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 14, 2023
How to access polyscope framebuffer Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#203 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 23, 2023
Callback functions for shutdown()? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#201 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 17, 2023
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error (active) E0308 more than one instance of overloaded function "ImGui::SliderFloat" matches the argument list: polyscope polyscope\src\view.cpp 604 Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#199 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 25, 2023
Implement saving/loading of persistent values to configure multiple views Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#192 · Opened Oct 20, 2022
How to set different colors of the edges of surface mess? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#187 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 1, 2022
Doesn't work on Virtual Machine Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#184 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2022
drag-and-drop mechanism Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#182 · Opened Aug 1, 2022
adjustable zoom rate Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#178 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 7, 2022
Add first person view mode Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#177 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 6, 2022
Plans to add `view::screenCoordsToWorldRay` to polyscope-py? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#176 · Opened Jun 30, 2022
Make vsync optional Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#175 · Opened Jun 29, 2022
CMake ExternalProject Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#173 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 26, 2022
How to register a structure in nested show() Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#172 · Opened May 24, 2022
crash while running polyscope under WSL Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#171 · Opened May 12, 2022
Add test case for updateCurveNetwork Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#167 · Opened Apr 19, 2022
Add option to view only mesh edges (wireframe) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#166 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2022
Display colormap color bar Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#163 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2022
Finding the camera view and camera direction Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#161 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 10, 2022
More general slicing primitives Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#160 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 17, 2022
Callbacks get called before view data is initialized on the first main loop iteration Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#157 · Opened Jan 16, 2022
enables polyscope to run in pyqt? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#156 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 16, 2022
Support general unicode string names (Chinese font, accents, etc) Open

enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#155 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 13, 2022
dimension bounding box Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#153 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 12, 2022
programmatically control the intrinsics / FoV? Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#152 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 5, 2022
updateVertexPositions too slow to use for real-time animation loops Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#149 · 6 comments · Opened Dec 23, 2021
Enhance mouse click return Open

enhancement Python

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#147 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 17, 2021
Keyboard monitoring and interaction Open

enhancement Python

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#146 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 17, 2021
Polyscope OpenGL Error! Type: Invalid enum Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#143 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 23, 2021
Appropriate Forum For PR Priorities? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#141 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 10, 2021
Rust wrapper of polyscope Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#127 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 8, 2021
DPI scaling? Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#124 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2021
How to create submenus (or multiple command UIs) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#122 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2021
support multiple viewports? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#121 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 13, 2021
Add ability to create scene primitives like sphere/cylinder/capsule/cube etc Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#114 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 20, 2021
How to obtain a high-quality png screenshot? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#113 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 3, 2021
Set custom texture Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#111 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 10, 2021
Serialization of "View" and "Appearance" values Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#109 · 2 comments · Opened May 5, 2021
How to refresh the rendering of polyscope scene inside a for loop? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#108 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 29, 2021
Performance optimizations for geometric data buffers Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#103 · Opened Apr 11, 2021
Picking callbacks Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#101 · 6 reactions · Opened Apr 8, 2021
Running polyscope on remote servers [python] Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmwsharp/polyscope#99 · 9 comments · Opened Mar 26, 2021
3d label supporting??? Open

enhancement

nmwsharp/polyscope#97 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 10, 2021
Document negative up directions Open

docs

nmwsharp/polyscope#93 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 30, 2021

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