I stumbled on this site blobmaker which lets you visually create random 2-D shapes - you pick a color and use a couple slider controls to choose a number of vertices (seems to be 3-7?) and how regular or symmetrical the shape is, and click a randomize button and it morphs or changes the shape onscreen.
I thought it might be neat to make a prog that does something like this but for 3d shapes (or 4d where you choose 2 or more shapes as "keyframes" and it morphs from one to the other) and it lets you choose more vertices (whatever your cpu or graphic card can handle), and color gradations or patterns across 3 dimensions, and displays the 3d shape rotating on the screen (maybe the axis of rotation can slowly change too) and maybe even auto-generates an STL file for a 3D printer when you press a hotkey, or a different hotkey generates whatever file is the 3D equivalent of a SVG file, etc.
I understand how an array can store a bunch of 3d coordinates of begin and end points for lines, but that's about as far as my 3d skills go. Does anyone know of any existing QB64PE project or code that could be easily adapted to draw and rotate or animate a 3d object like this?
This would basically be a kind of lava lamp construction set...?
Something like this!! Random animation, like "the amazing mr. bickford"!
Static shape creator with advanced parameters (way more than I was thinking of!):
A tutorial on another one (not as organic looking as the above examples)
I thought it might be neat to make a prog that does something like this but for 3d shapes (or 4d where you choose 2 or more shapes as "keyframes" and it morphs from one to the other) and it lets you choose more vertices (whatever your cpu or graphic card can handle), and color gradations or patterns across 3 dimensions, and displays the 3d shape rotating on the screen (maybe the axis of rotation can slowly change too) and maybe even auto-generates an STL file for a 3D printer when you press a hotkey, or a different hotkey generates whatever file is the 3D equivalent of a SVG file, etc.
I understand how an array can store a bunch of 3d coordinates of begin and end points for lines, but that's about as far as my 3d skills go. Does anyone know of any existing QB64PE project or code that could be easily adapted to draw and rotate or animate a 3d object like this?
This would basically be a kind of lava lamp construction set...?
Something like this!! Random animation, like "the amazing mr. bickford"!
Static shape creator with advanced parameters (way more than I was thinking of!):
A tutorial on another one (not as organic looking as the above examples)