---
name: "vedo"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python3-vedo"
version: "2025.5.3-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/vedo"
---

# vedo(1)

Visualization, analysis and animation of 3D objects and point clouds in VTK files.

## NAME

vedo - Visualization, analysis and animation of 3D objects and point clouds in VTK files.

## SYNOPSIS

**vedo** \[**-h**\] \[**-c**\] \[**-a**\] \[**-w**\] \[**-p**\] \[**-k**\] \[**-x**\] \[**-i**\] \[**-l**\] \[**-f**\] \[**-bg**\] \[**-z**\] \[**-q**\] \[**-n**\] \[**-s**\] \[**-g**\] \[**-gz**\] \[**-gy**\] \[**--slicer**\] \[*files* \[*files ...*\]\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **vedo** command.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**vedo** is a program that plots and visualises VTK files.

## OPTIONS

*files*

Input filename(s)

- **-c**, **--color**

  mesh color \[integer or color name\]

- **-a**, **--alpha**

  alpha value \[0-1\]

- **-w**, **--wireframe**

  use wireframe representation

- **-p**, **--point-size**

  specify point size

- **-e**, **--showedges**

  show a thin line on mesh edges

- **-k**, **--lighting**

  metallic, plastic, shiny or glossy

- **-K**, **--flat**

  use flat shading

- **-x**, **--axes-type**

  specify axes type \[0-5\] (default=4)

- **-i**, **--no-camera-share**

  do not share camera in renderers

- **-l**, **--legend-off**

  do not show legends

- **-f**, **--full-screen**

  full screen mode

- **-bg**, **--background**

  background color \[integer or color name\]

- **--background-grad**

  use background color gradient

- **-z**, **--zoom**

  zooming factor

- **-q**, **--quiet**

  quiet mode, less verbose

- **-n**, **--multirenderer-mode**

  Multi renderer Mode: files go to separate renderers

- **-s**, **--scrolling-mode**

  Scrolling Mode: use arrows to scroll files

- **-g**, **--ray-cast-mode**

  GPU Ray-casting Mode for 3D image files

- **-gx**, **--x-spacing**

  Volume x-spacing factor \[1\]

- **-gy**, **--y-spacing**

  Volume y-spacing factor \[1\]

- **-gz**, **--z-spacing**

  Volume z-spacing factor \[1\]

- **--slicer**

  Slicer Mode for 3D image files

- **--lego**

  Voxel rendering for 3D image files

- **--cmap**

  Voxel rendering color map name (default='jet')

- **--mode**

  Voxel rendering composite mode (default=0)

- **-r**, **--run**

  Run example from vedo-examples

- **--list**

  List examples in vedo-examples

- **-h**, **--help**

  show help message and exit

## SEE ALSO

[**vedo**(1)](/vedo/1.md)

The programs are documented fully at **https://vedo.embl.es/**.

## AUTHOR

**Drew Parsons** \<dparsons@debian.org\>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2019 Drew Parsons\

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the MIT License.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the MIT License can be found in /usr/share/doc/python3-vedo/copyright.