From: "� - - �n +���ng� - - �" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:17 AM
> i wanted to create cutomized 3D shapes and one of the things i thought of doing is thru extrusion and lathing 2D shapes. is that possible in java3d? how? if not, how else can i customize my 3D shapes? My not-ready-for-prime-time lathe and extruder allow construction of a (plane) polygon, then use those line segments to generate triangle strip arrays. The ends of extrusions and partial arcs get closed with TrangleFanArrays made from the (convex) polygons. This approach is practical, I think, only for some limited cases. It takes some fiddling to control the vertex count for lathe parts that have large ratios of outer to inner diameters, for example. Similarly, if a polygon section combines a few simple lines with contorted shapes, the resulting mesh isn't particularly pretty. Fred Klingener Brock Enginering =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
