pyvista.PolyData.point_normals#

property PolyData.point_normals: pyvista_ndarray[source]#

Return the point normals.

If the point 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 point normals.

Examples

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> sphere = pv.Sphere()
>>> sphere.point_normals  
pyvista_ndarray([[-2.48721432e-10, -1.08815623e-09, -1.00000000e+00],
                 [-2.48721432e-10, -1.08815623e-09,  1.00000000e+00],
                 [-1.18888125e-01,  3.40539310e-03, -9.92901802e-01],
                 ...,
                 [-3.11940581e-01, -6.81432486e-02,  9.47654784e-01],
                 [-2.09880397e-01, -4.65070531e-02,  9.76620376e-01],
                 [-1.15582108e-01, -2.80492082e-02,  9.92901802e-01]],
                dtype=float32)