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SpherePrimitive

A primitive representing a sphere or ellipsoid

Parent Data Structure​

SpherePrimitive appears in the SceneEntity message data structure.

Data Structure​

FieldTypeDescription
poseposePosition and orientation of the sphere center
sizeVector3Size of the sphere along each axis (diameter)
colorcolorColor of the sphere

Reference Implementation​

Visualization data structures are framework-agnostic and can be implemented using any supported message encoding:

EncodingData Structure
ROS 1foxglove_msgs/SpherePrimitive
ROS 2foxglove_msgs/msg/SpherePrimitive
JSONfoxglove.SpherePrimitive
Protobuffoxglove.SpherePrimitive
FlatBuffersfoxglove.SpherePrimitive
OMG IDLfoxglove::SpherePrimitive

You must use the data structure names specified above so that visualizations can recognize the data structure.