How to hide a specific actor in python-vtk

Question

There are some actors in same scene, I need to hide an actor of specific index (Not remove it, just hide). Maybe There are some API in python-vtk, but i don't know.

Answer 1

To hide an actor:

actor.GetProperty().SetOpacity(0)

Here is the vtkProperty API (c++ but Python is quite the same)

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Or as @mmusy suggest, simply

actor.VisibilityOff()

actor API.