# plotting

```{eval-rst}
.. sectionauthor:: Florian Zill (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ)
```

The `plot` module provides an easy way to create high quality contourplots of 2D
or 3D mesh data. It is heavily based on `matplotlib` and `pyvista`.

## Features

- plotting of point or cell data
- plotting multiple meshes in a subplot grid
- projections of arbitrarily oriented 2D meshes
- isometric views of 3D meshes
- show region/material boundaries (optionally with labels)
- show element boundaries
- streamlines of vector data
- sensible default colormaps
- nicely formatted colorbars

## Getting started

- Examples demonstrating the plotting utilitites can be found at: [](../auto_examples/howto_plot/index).
- You can access the comprehensive API documentation at: [](../reference/ogstools.plot).