Features Overview

[rohitvarkey]

This is just a rough idea of what all should be present in Compose3D and what all has been done to help me understand which features I should focus on now. Been kind of stuck for the last week.

Geometry Primitives

• Cubes
• Cuboids
• Spheres
• Pyramids
• Tori
• Cylinders
• Parametric Surfaces
  • Functions
  • Matrices
• Planes
• Polyhedrons

Materials and Properties

• Mesh Colors (Rename to Surface Color?)
• Wireframes - This draws all triangles being drawn by the GPU.
• Edge Wireframes - Wireframe of only hard edges (ThreeJS implementation added. Can't be used for mesh plots though.)
• Visibility
• Lambert Materials
• Basic Materials
• Phong Materials
• Normal Materials
• Vertex Colors
• Mesh plot wireframe (Implemented not as a material.)

Lights

• Spot Lights
• Point Lights
• Ambient Lights

Camera

• Perspective Camera
• Modifiable look at -> Currently defaults to origin.

Defaults

• Good default camera and lights.
• default Context dimensions

General Features

• Transforms

Integration with Compose

• Switch to Measures.jl
  • Waiting for this PR to get merged.
• Rewrite Patchwork backend to use new drawpart function.

IJulia integration

• Clarify where to copy the asset files to. See Serving Static Files in IJulia JuliaLang/IJulia.jl#339, A way to register a directory to be served statically jupyter/notebook#320
• Write a writemime for signals in Patchable3D

Escher integration

• Switch to Polymer 1.0

Performance

• Improve parametric update performance.

Documentation

• More examples, screenshots and screencasts.
• API documentation.

[rohitvarkey]

@shashi @SimonDanisch anything you would like to add?

[SimonDanisch]

Using Compose3D in JuliaBox just hangs.
Can you add a few more examples plus screenshots/screencasts!?

[shashi]

@rohitvarkey Documentation? :)