Mayavi seeks to provide easy and interactive visualization of 3-D data. It offers:

• An (optional) rich user interface with dialogs to interact with all data and objects in the visualization.
• A simple and clean scripting interface in Python, including one-liners, or an object-oriented programming interface. Mayavi integrates seamlessly with numpy and scipy for 3D plotting and can even be used in IPython interactively, similarly to Matplotlib.
• The power of the VTK toolkit, harnessed through these interfaces, without forcing you to learn it. Additionally Mayavi is a reusable tool that can be embedded in your applications in different ways or combined with the Envisage application-building framework to assemble domain-specific tools.