# Dragon example

Viewing Stanford 3D Scanning Repository dragon model

Python source code: `dragon.py`

    # Copyright (c) 2014-2015, Enthought, Inc.
    # Standard library imports
    import os
    from os.path import join

    # Enthought library imports
    from mayavi import mlab

    ### Download the dragon data, if not already on disk ############################
    if not os.path.exists('dragon.tar.gz'):
        # Download the data
        try:
            from urllib import urlopen
        except ImportError:
            from urllib.request import urlopen
        print("Downloading dragon model, Please Wait (11MB)")
        opener = urlopen(
                'http://graphics.stanford.edu/pub/3Dscanrep/dragon/dragon_recon.tar.gz')
        open('dragon.tar.gz', 'wb').write(opener.read())

    # Extract the data
    import tarfile
    dragon_tar_file = tarfile.open('dragon.tar.gz')
    try:
        os.mkdir('dragon_data')
    except:
        pass
    dragon_tar_file.extractall('dragon_data')
    dragon_tar_file.close()

    # Path to the dragon ply file
    dragon_ply_file = join('dragon_data', 'dragon_recon', 'dragon_vrip.ply')

    # Render the dragon ply file
    mlab.pipeline.surface(mlab.pipeline.open(dragon_ply_file))
    mlab.show()

    import shutil
    shutil.rmtree('dragon_data')