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Learning Three.js: The JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL - Second Edition

You're reading from   Learning Three.js: The JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL - Second Edition Create stunning 3D graphics in your browser using the Three.js JavaScript library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392215
Length 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jos Dirksen Jos Dirksen
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Preface 1. Creating Your First 3D Scene with Three.js 2. Basic Components That Make Up a Three.js Scene FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with the Different Light Sources Available in Three.js 4. Working with Three.js Materials 5. Learning to Work with Geometries 6. Advanced Geometries and Binary Operations 7. Particles, Sprites, and the Point Cloud 8. Creating and Loading Advanced Meshes and Geometries 9. Animations and Moving the Camera 10. Loading and Working with Textures 11. Custom Shaders and Render Postprocessing 12. Adding Physics and Sounds to Your Scene Index

Using binary operations to combine meshes


In this section, we'll look at a different way of creating geometries. In this chapter, so far, and in the previous chapter, we used the default geometries provided by Three.js to create interesting-looking geometries. With the default set of properties, you can create beautiful models, but you are limited to what Three.js provides. In this section, we'll show you how you can combine these standard geometries to create new ones—a technique known as Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) To do this, we use the Three.js extension ThreeBSP, which you can find online at https://github.com/skalnik/ThreeBSP. This additional library provides the following three functions:

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intersect

This function allows you to create a new geometry based on the intersection of two existing geometries. The area where both geometries overlap will define the shape of this new geometry.

union

The union function can be used to combine two geometries and create...

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