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Eye Dome Lighting
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Eye-Dome Lighting (EDL) is a non-photorealistic, image-based shading technique
designed to improve depth perception in scientific visualization images.
To learn more, please see `this blog post`_.

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    import pyvista as pv
    from pyvista import examples


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Point Cloud
+++++++++++

When plotting a simple point cloud, it can be difficult to perceive depth.
Take this Lidar point cloud for example:

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    # Plot a typical point cloud with no EDL
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We can improve the depth mapping by enabling eye dome lighting on the
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    p.show()



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