open3d.visualization.draw_goemetries function not working on Google Colab

[abhineet99]

open3d.visualization.draw_goemetries function not working on Google Colab.

I installed open3d on Google Colab using pip in python3. But this function is not working , it is not showing any error but doesn't produce any output, while other functions still do there job. I think this function returns the visualisation in a new window which is not supported in the browser, any way around this?

[JackLangerman]

I believe this is a headless rendering issue related to #940 #972 .

You may be able to work around using jupyter visualization for some applications:

http://www.open3d.org/docs/tutorial/Basic/jupyter.html

Hopefully headless gets figured out soon though....

[abhineet99]

When i do visualizer.show() it just says "JVisualizer with 1 geometries" and displays nothing. Mozilla 67.0.4 on Ubuntu 18.04.

[Magnetar99]

I see the same "JVisualizer with 1 geometries" but nothing to display?

[omshinde]

Facing the same issue on Google Colab! Something like %open3d inline similar to %matplotlib inline using interactive magic functions would be a great help. Thanks!

[SapphireEmbers]

Any progress here?

[JihongJu]

I got the same issue on Kaggle. Nothing was displayed with visualizer.show() To give a bit more information here's the error messages:

Update

I managed to get it working by installing open3d before running the notebook. And it apparently helps load the jupyter widgets.

[dinarkino]

The same problem in colab. Got this error RuntimeError: [Open3D ERROR] GLFW Error: X11: The DISPLAY environment variable is missing0;m

JVisualizer shows nothing

[Thomseeen]

Can't get it to work in combination with Google Colab either. Using the JVisualizer nothing is printed at all while the error Error has occurred while trying to update output. Error: "Widgets module open3d is not supported" is printed in the dev-tools console.

[JayLIU0911]

Same problem here in jupyter notebook. Any update?

[rjsgml5698]

Any update?

[robotsir]

I have the same issue

[comingtoyoulive]

I have the same issue, but what I know is only happening 'RuntimeError: [Open3D ERROR] GLFW Error: GLX: Forward compatibility requested but GLX_ARB_create_context_profile is unavailable'(MAY BE headless ISSUE)

[Dource]

I have the same issue. Get no output with Google Colab and jupyter Notebook

[Jaykob]

Same issue here...

[germanros1987]

thank you for your "kind" words @pankajbadatia . Could anybody provide the version of Open3D they are using? @yxlao could you take a look at this?

[hahakid]

@germanros1987 open3d 0.10.0.1 o3d.visualization.draw_geometries([pcd]) #works

visualizer = JVisualizer() visualizer.add_geometry(pcd) visualizer.show() #show nothing & return JVisualizer with 1 geometries

[jousefm]

Any progress here? Having the same issue. No visualization at all.

[tairch]

same problem here, JVisualizer returns nothing

[EricWiener]

Same problem here as well

[Arnavdas]

same issue, hope in 2021 someone gives a look

[richardagalvez]

Same issue here. By the looks of it, Open3D has been completely abandoned and another library should be sought out for work in a jupyter environment. ipygany looks promising but I have not worked with it before. If anyone has any suggestions on working with 3D data in jupyter lab / notebooks, please comment, cheers

[Jeremy26]

Any update?

[yiliu-coding]

Same issue. Any update?

[dbacea]

Same issue on Google Colab with Open3D version 0.12.0. Using the code from the official documentation plots nothing (see http://www.open3d.org/docs/latest/tutorial/Basic/jupyter.html). I've also tried with: o3d.visualization.draw_geometries([pcd]), which does not plot anything and it raises the following warnings: [Open3D WARNING] GLFW Error: X11: The DISPLAY environment variable is missing0;m [Open3D WARNING] Failed to initialize GLFW0;m [Open3D WARNING] [DrawGeometries] Failed creating OpenGL window.0;m

[EricWiener]

This is a work-around, not a solution, but I created a package bbox-utils that allows you to perform common operations and visualizations with bounding boxes. I use Open3D to handle the geometry operations, but I then display the point cloud using Plotly. If you're interested please feel free to take a look: https://github.com/EricWiener/bbox-utils.

Here's a demo Jupyter notebook that shows how to display a bounding box in a point cloud. Here's a colab notebook.

[abdelhakimbenkrama]

same problem

[UnaNancyOwen]

Hi, all! You can visualize Open3D geometries on Google Colab using Plotly. It works fine on Google Colab. 👍 https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1CR_HDvJ2AnjJV3Bf5vwP70K0hx3RcdMb?usp=sharing

[wtseng530]

@UnaNancyOwen amazing thanks for sharing!

[BupyeongHealer]

@UnaNancyOwen Thanks for sharing!! I solve the problem.

[MehdiMaboudi]

Hi, all! You can visualize Open3D geometries on Google Colab using Plotly. It works fine on Google Colab. 👍 https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1CR_HDvJ2AnjJV3Bf5vwP70K0hx3RcdMb?usp=sharing

Thanks for sharing !