Procedural Rendering (Async)#

Our RPC implementation is very performant. This also support non-blocking, multi-session rendering. To test this, you can fire up a few identical browser sessions.

import asyncio
from asyncio import sleep
from io import BytesIO

import numpy as np
import PIL.Image as PImage

from vuer import Vuer, VuerSession
from vuer.schemas import (
    Sphere,
    DefaultScene,
    Plane,
)

app = Vuer()

@app.spawn(start=True)
async def show_heatmap(sess: VuerSession):
    sess.set @ DefaultScene(
        Plane(
            key="ground-plane",
            args=[10, 10, 10],
            position=[0, 0, 0],
            rotation=[0, 0, 0],
            materialType="depth",
            meterial=dict(color="green", side=2),
        ),
        Sphere(
            key="sphere",
            args=[0.1, 200, 200],
            position=[0.2, 0, 0.1],
            rotation=[0, 0, 0],
            materialType="depth",
            outlines=dict(angle=0, thickness=0.002, color="white"),
        ),
        # hide the helper to only render the objects.
        show_helper=False,
    )

    i = 0
    while True:
        i += 1
        h = 0.25 - (0.00866 * (i % 120 - 60)) ** 2
        position = [0.2, 0.0, 0.1 + h]
        # phase = 2 * np.pi * i / 240
        # position = [0.15 + 0.25 * np.sin(phase), 0.1, 0.2 * np.cos(phase)]
        sess.update @ Sphere(
            key="sphere",
            args=[0.1, 20, 20],
            position=position,
            rotation=[0, 0, 0],
            materialType="depth",
        )

        if i == 0:
            await sleep(1.0)

        # this try/catch for timeout is important, because the first RPC
        #   tends to timeout due to the frontend not having enough time to
        #   finish loading the scene.
        try:
            response = await sess.grab_render(quality=0.95, downsample=1)

            import cv2

            # add you render saving logic here.
            buff = response.value["frame"]

            pil_image = PImage.open(BytesIO(buff))
            img = np.array(pil_image)

            # reverse the channel order for open-cv
            img_bgr = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
            cv2.imshow("frame", img_bgr)
            if cv2.waitKey(1) == ord("q"):
                exit()

        except asyncio.TimeoutError as e:
            print("render grab timed out.")