Style

All renderable objects in Mechanica have a style attribute. The style object behaves like a container for a variety of style descriptors. Each instance of an object with a style automatically inherits the style of its type, which can then be individually manipulated. The style attribute currently supports setting the color (setColor) and visibility (setVisible) of its parent object.

Styling Particle Types in Python

The ParticleType has a special procedure for specifying the style of a type as a class definition in Python. The style attribute can be defined in Python as a dictionary with key-value pairs for particle type class definitions. The color of a type can be specified with the key "color" and value of the name of a color as a string. The visibility of a type can be specified with key "visible" and value of a Boolean.

import mechanica as mx

class MyParticleType(mx.ParticleType):
    style = {'color': 'CornflowerBlue', 'visible': False}

my_particle_type = MyParticleType.get()
my_particle = my_particle_type()
my_particle.style.setVisible(True)