You need Cython and various OpenGL-related things. If you have those, running python viewer_setup.py build should successfully compile a viewer library and hide it somewhere like build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/viewer.so Copy or link it to the root directory. Then python examples.py should give you a list of examples, and python examples.py [parameter=value] ... should give you pretty pictures with mouse and keyboard control.