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§Rerun - Visualize streams of multimodal data.
Add the rerun library to your crate with cargo add rerun.
There is also a rerun binary.
The binary is required in order to stream log data
over the networks, and to open our .rrd data files.
If you need it, install the rerun binary with cargo install rerun-cli --locked.
§Feature flags
-
analytics(enabled by default) — Enable telemetry using our analytics SDK. -
clap— Integration withclap. -
data_loaders(enabled by default) — Support for using Rerun’s data-loaders directly from the SDK.See our
log_fileexample and https://www.rerun.io/docs/reference/data-loaders/overview for more information. -
demo(enabled by default) — Demo helpers for examples. -
dataframe(enabled by default) — Access to Rerun’s dataframe API and related types. -
glam(enabled by default) — Add support for some math operations usingglam. Only relevant if featuresdkis enabled. -
mint— Add support for math type conversions usingmint. Only relevant if featuresdkis enabled. -
image(enabled by default) — Integration with theimagecrate, plus JPEG support. -
ecolor— Integration with theecolorcrate. -
log(enabled by default) — Integration with thelogcrate. -
nasm— Enable faster native video decoding with assembly. You need to install nasm to compile with this feature. -
native_viewer— Support spawning a native viewer. This adds a lot of extra dependencies, so only enable this feature if you need it! -
run— Add support for therun()function, which acts like a main-function for a CLI, acting the same as thererunbinary. -
server(enabled by default) — Support for running a TCP server that listens to incoming log messages from a Rerun SDK. -
sdk(enabled by default) — Embed the Rerun SDK & built-in types and re-export all of their public symbols. -
web_viewer— Support serving a web viewer over HTTP.Enabling this inflates the binary size quite a bit, since it embeds the viewer wasm.
For faster & easier builds, a pre-built web-views comes bundled with the crate as a Wasm binary. Enabling this feature will embed this pre-built web viewer.
However, when building from source in the repository, this feature adds quite a bit to the compile time since it requires compiling and bundling the viewer as wasm.
§Links
There are many different ways of sending data to the Rerun Viewer depending on what you’re trying to achieve and whether the viewer is running in the same process as your code, in another process, or even as a separate web application.
Checkout SDK Operating Modes for an overview of what’s possible and how.
If you get stuck on anything, open an issue at https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/issues. You can also ask questions on the Rerun Discord.
§Using the rerun binary
The rerun binary is required in order to stream log data
over the networks, and to open our .rrd data files.
The binary can act either as a server, a viewer, or both, depending on which options you use when you start it.
Install it with cargo install rerun-cli --locked.
Running just rerun will start the viewer, waiting for the logging library to connect
using RecordingStreamBuilder::connect (see below).
You can run rerun --help for more info.
§Using the rerun library
§Logging
You first create a RecordingStream using RecordingStreamBuilder.
You then use it to log some archetypes to a given EntityPath using RecordingStream::log:
// Stream log data to an awaiting `rerun` process.
let rec = rerun::RecordingStreamBuilder::new("rerun_example_app").connect()?;
let points: Vec<rerun::Position3D> = positions();
let colors: Vec<rerun::Color> = colors();
let image: image::DynamicImage = capture_image();
rec.set_time_sequence("frame", 42);
rec.log("path/to/points", &rerun::Points3D::new(points).with_colors(colors))?;
rec.log("path/to/image", &rerun::Image::from_color_model_and_tensor(rerun::ColorModel::RGB, image)?)?;
§Streaming to disk
Streaming data to a file on disk using the .rrd format:
let rec = rerun::RecordingStreamBuilder::new("rerun_example_app").save("my_data.rrd")?;
§Buffering
You can buffer the log messages in memory and then show them in an embedded viewer:
let (rec, storage) = rerun::RecordingStreamBuilder::new("rerun_example_app").memory()?;
log_to(&rec);
// Will block program execution!
rerun::native_viewer::show(storage.take());
cargo install rerun
rerun --help§Forwarding text log events to Rerun
See Logger.
Re-exports§
pub use log_integration::Logger;
Modules§
- Integration with integration with the
clapcommand line argument parser. - Components are the basic building blocks of
archetypes. - Coordinate system helpers, for use with
components::ViewCoordinates. - All the types required by the dataframe API.
- The low-level datatypes that
componentsare built from. - This module contains utilities to support Rerun examples.
- Re-exports of other crates.
- Things directly related to logging.
- Integrates the Rerun SDK with the
logcrate. - Methods for spawning the native viewer and streaming the SDK log stream to it.
- Different destinations for log messages.
- Time-related types.
- Transform helpers, for use with
archetypes::Transform3D. - Methods for spawning the web viewer and streaming the SDK log stream to it.
Macros§
- Build an
EntityPathfrom parts that are not escaped:
Structs§
- Component: A color multiplier, usually applied to a whole entity, e.g. a mesh.
- Datatype: Angle in radians.
- Archetype: The annotation context provides additional information on how to display entities.
- Datatype: Annotation info annotating a class id or key-point id.
- The user-chosen name of the application doing the logging.
- The fully-qualified name of an
Archetype, e.g.rerun.archetypes.Points3D. - Archetype: 2D arrows with optional colors, radii, labels, etc.
- Archetype: 3D arrows with optional colors, radii, labels, etc.
- Archetype: A prepacked 3D asset (
.gltf,.glb,.obj,.stl, etc.). - Archetype: A video binary.
- Archetype: A bar chart.
- Archetype: 2D boxes with half-extents and optional center, colors etc.
- Archetype: 3D boxes with half-extents and optional center, rotations, colors etc.
- Everything needed to build custom
ChunkStoreSubscribers. A complete chunk store: covers all timelines, all entities, everything. - Everything needed to build custom
ChunkStoreSubscribers. - Everything needed to build custom
ChunkStoreSubscribers. Describes an atomic change in the RerunChunkStore: a chunk has been added or deleted. - Everything needed to build custom
ChunkStoreSubscribers. The atomic unit of change in the RerunChunkStore. - Everything needed to build custom
ChunkStoreSubscribers. Incremented on each edit. - Datatype: The description of a semantic Class.
- Archetype: Empties all the components of an entity.
- Component: An RGBA color with unmultiplied/separate alpha, in sRGB gamma space with linear alpha.
- The fully-qualified name of a
Component, e.g.rerun.components.Position2D. - Recommended settings for the
DataLoader. - The fully-qualified name of a [
Datatype], e.g.rerun.datatypes.Vec2D. - Archetype: A depth image, i.e. as captured by a depth camera.
- Archetype: Spatially disconnect this entity from its parent.
- Archetype: 3D ellipsoids or spheres.
- Archetype: An image encoded as e.g. a JPEG or PNG.
- The unique identifier of an entity, e.g.
camera/3/points - The different parts that make up an
EntityPath. - Datatype: A single-precision 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point number.
- A generic indicator component that can be specialized for any
Archetype. - Component: Half-size (radius) of a 2D box.
- Component: Half-size (radius) of a 3D box.
- Archetype: A monochrome or color image.
- Component: The metadata describing the contents of a
components::ImageBuffer. - A unique numeric index for each individual instance within a batch.
- Archetype: One or more transforms between the current entity and its parent. Unlike
archetypes::Transform3D, it is not propagated in the transform hierarchy. - Datatype: A connection between two
datatypes::KeypointIds. - Component: A line strip in 2D space.
- Component: A line strip in 3D space.
- Archetype: 2D line strips with positions and optional colors, radii, labels, etc.
- Archetype: 3D line strips with positions and optional colors, radii, labels, etc.
- Datatype: A 3x3 Matrix.
- Component: A standardized media type (RFC2046, formerly known as MIME types), encoded as a string.
- Represents a limit in how much RAM to use for the entire process.
- Archetype: A 3D triangle mesh as specified by its per-mesh and per-vertex properties.
- An arbitrary named indicator component.
- Archetype: Camera perspective projection (a.k.a. intrinsics).
- Archetype: A 2D point cloud with positions and optional colors, radii, labels, etc.
- Archetype: A 3D point cloud with positions and optional colors, radii, labels, etc.
- Component: A position in 2D space.
- Component: A position in 3D space.
- Datatype: A Quaternion represented by 4 real numbers.
- Component: The radius of something, e.g. a point.
- A
RecordingStreamhandles everything related to logging data into Rerun. - Construct a
RecordingStream. - Datatype: An RGBA color with unmultiplied/separate alpha, in sRGB gamma space with linear alpha.
- Datatype: 3D rotation represented by a rotation around a given axis.
- Archetype: A double-precision scalar, e.g. for use for time-series plots.
- Component: A 3D scale factor.
- Archetype: An image made up of integer
components::ClassIds. - Archetype: Define the style properties for a line series in a chart.
- Archetype: Define the style properties for a point series in a chart.
- Options to control the behavior of
spawn. - A unique id per store.
- Archetype: An N-dimensional array of numbers.
- Datatype: An N-dimensional array of numbers.
- Datatype: A single dimension within a multi-dimensional tensor.
- Component: A string of text, e.g. for labels and text documents.
- Archetype: A text element intended to be displayed in its own text box.
- Archetype: A log entry in a text log, comprised of a text body and its log level.
- Component: The severity level of a text log message.
- A date-time represented as nanoseconds since unix epoch
- A point in time on any number of
Timelines. - A time frame/space, e.g.
log_timeorframe_nr, coupled with the type of time it keeps. - Archetype: A transform between two 3D spaces, i.e. a pose.
- Component: The three indices of a triangle in a triangle mesh.
- Datatype: A vector in 2D space.
- Datatype: A vector in 3D space.
- Datatype: A vector in 4D space.
- Component: A vector in 2D space.
- Component: A vector in 3D space.
- Archetype: References a single video frame.
- Archetype: How we interpret the coordinate system of an entity/space.
Enums§
- Where are we calling
runfrom? - Datatype: The innermost datatype of an image.
- Everything needed to build custom
ChunkStoreSubscribers. Is it an addition or a deletion? - Datatype: Specified what color components are present in an
archetypes::Image. - Errors that might happen when loading data through a
DataLoader. - Component: How a geometric shape is drawn and colored.
- What
DataLoaders load. - Holds either an owned
ComponentBatchthat lives on heap, or a reference to one. - Datatype: Specifieds a particular format of an
archetypes::Image. - Errors that can occur when creating/manipulating a
RecordingStream. - A 3D rotation.
- Errors that can occur when
spawning a Rerun Viewer. - What kind of Store this is.
- Datatype: The underlying storage for
archetypes::Tensor. - Component: Specifies relation a spatial transform describes.
- Everything needed to build custom
ChunkStoreSubscribers. How to handle version mismatches during decoding.
Constants§
- When an external
DataLoaderis asked to load some data that it doesn’t know how to load, it should exit with this exit code. - To register a new external data loader, simply add an executable in your $PATH whose name starts with this prefix.
Traits§
- An archetype is a high-level construct that represents a set of
Components that usually play well with each other (i.e. they compose nicely). - Describes the interface for interpreting an object as a bundle of
Components. - Everything needed to build custom
ChunkStoreSubscribers. AChunkStoreSubscribersubscribes to atomic changes from allChunkStores throughChunkStoreEvents. - A
ComponentBatchrepresents an array’s worth ofComponentinstances. - A
DataLoaderloads data from a file path and/or a file’s contents. - A
Loggablerepresents a single instance in an array of loggable data. - A
LoggableBatchrepresents an array’s worth ofLoggableinstances, ready to be serialized. - Approximations of stack and heap size for both internal and external types.
Functions§
- The version of the Rerun SDK.
- Check whether we are the child of a fork.
- Checks the
RERUNenvironment variable. If not found, returns the argument. - The default amount of time to wait for the TCP connection to resume during a flush
- Get
RUST_LOGenvironment variable orinfo, if not set. - The default address of a Rerun TCP server which an SDK connects to.
- Returns path for force sink if private environment variable
_RERUN_TEST_FORCE_SAVEis set - Creates a new
re_log_types::StoreInfowhich can be used withRecordingStream::new. - Run the Rerun application and return an exit code.
- Spawns a new Rerun Viewer process ready to listen for TCP connections.
Type Aliases§
- Results that can occur when creating/manipulating a
RecordingStream.