Monotaur

Exploration project to check Three.js features and capabilities.

❇️ Codepen Demo

❇️ Random Sequence rotation animation

How it works

1. Load SVG shapes (2D).

   

2. Extrude 3D surfaces from SVG shapes.

   It is like making an I-beam surface from an I shape.

   Or like creating a ring surface from an O shape, which is technically speaking is called extruding annular cylinder from an annulus :-)

   

3. For each pair of extruded surfaces find their Boolean Intersection.

   One surface is rotated 90-degree against the other before computing intersection.

   Surface intersections are computed using BSP (binary space partitioning), and thankfully there are existing solutions for that:

   • https://github.com/Jiro-Digital/three-csg-ts
   • https://github.com/sshirokov/ThreeBSP
   

4. Resulting surface mesh is animated by rotating around vertical axis.

5. After completing quarter-circle revolution 3D-mesh is switched to the next one to achieve smooth transition.

animation.mp4