Extrusions - add depth to shape

[adamgreenough]

Is there a way to add depth to a custom shape like there is with the box? Would love this!

I have drawn out my shape in 2D. I have tried cloning in to z space and joining up points but there seems to be some buggy seethrough faces behaviour with this method.

https://codepen.io/xadz/pen/BeObVO

[desandro]

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No, Zdog does not currently support extrusions. This could be a good add-on feature

[natemoo-re]

I’ve been looking into this. Any thoughts on how curved faces could be handled?

One implementation could use polygonal triangulation, but that seems out of sync with Zdog’s philosophy.

Zdog is round. All circular shapes are rendered as proper circles with rounded edges. No polygonal jaggies.

I wonder if there's a way to fake it like Cylinder cleverly renders a stroke. Finding a solution here would probably cover #25 as well.

[desandro]

In my head, a Zdog extrusion would take a naive approach and extrude shapes point-by-point. This would cover angular polygons, but not curved faces. Zdog is not well-suited for for curved faces.

I do know that finding contours on bezier paths is mathematically possible, but its over my head. It involves calculus and derivatives. If anyone with proper calc skills wants to help here, that'd be fantastic.

[turbo]

Bezier extrusion could be done point by point. For example, in the Love2D engine, Bezier curves are not graphics primitives but are paths (polygons) constructed from control points (n-degree). The curve is "rendered" by subdividing (De Casteljau) it into segments by a given granularity. Follow links to see the implementation.

[ryanrossiter]

I created a shape extrusion proof-of-concept using the react-zdog bindings: https://ryanrossiter.com/shape-extrusion-zdog/ (repo)

It's accomplished by stacking shapes on top of each other in a group, so fairly naive but it's a start!

[wuliTTo]

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