Leafmap - lidar visualisation not interactive

[gdeslo]

Dear professor Wu,

I attempted to visualize LiDAR data using leafmap.view_lidar as demonstrated in your Whitebox lecture on YouTube. I followed the steps outlined, using the latest version of Leafmap and additional LiDAR packages, and ran the code in VS Code:

leafmap.view_lidar("madison.las")

However, the output was a static, non-interactive figure, which differs from the interactive visualization shown in the lecture:

I also referred to the LiDAR section on the Leafmap website and tried specifying a backend:

leafmap.view_lidar(filename, cmap="terrain", backend="pyvista")

Unfortunately, this didn't resolve the issue. After testing other backends, I found that only the open3d backend produced an interactive 3D figure.

Could you please advise on what might be causing this and how I can resolve it? For reference, I am using Windows 10, Python version 3.11.4, Leafmap version 0.42.6.

Thank you in advance!

[giswqs]

See pyvista/pyvista#3371 (comment)