pyvista.PolyData.cell_normals#

property PolyData.cell_normals: pyvista_ndarray[source]#

Return the cell normals.

If the cell data already contains an array named 'Normals', this array will be returned. Otherwise, the normals will be computed using the default options of compute_normals() and returned.

Returns:

pyvista.pyvista_ndarray: Array of cell normals.

Examples

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> sphere = pv.Sphere()
>>> sphere.cell_normals  
pyvista_ndarray([[-0.05413816,  0.00569015, -0.9985172 ],
                 [-0.05177207,  0.01682176, -0.9985172 ],
                 [-0.04714328,  0.02721819, -0.9985172 ],
                 ...,
                 [-0.26742265, -0.02810723,  0.96316934],
                 [-0.1617585 , -0.01700151,  0.9866839 ],
                 [-0.1617585 , -0.01700151,  0.9866839 ]], dtype=float32)