Some days I am in awe of the awesomeness behind software, some days, I can't understand how we've gotten so far with such a shitty software. Today, I am baffled at how terrible 3D jupyter-notebook python libraries are for things like .stl .ply .obj and similar file formats for 3D objects. Like, seriously? It's 2021 and we can't have a decent 3D plotting library for meshes in one of the most popular languages in the world??

Eventually, I settled for pyvista which seems okay so far but ran into many issues when setting it up.

I think this means that either nobody is making good 3D libraries for Python with jupyter support or Jupyter itself has some weird inner working that makes it hard to develop good 3D libraries that work well with it.