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Learn Three.js

You're reading from   Learn Three.js Programming 3D animations and visualizations for the web with HTML5 and WebGL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833288
Length 528 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Jos Dirksen Jos Dirksen
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Your First 3D Scene with Three.js 2. The Basic Components that Make Up a Three.js Application FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Light Sources in Three.js 4. Working with Three.js Materials 5. Learning to Work with Geometries 6. Advanced Geometries and Binary Operations 7. Points and Sprites 8. Creating and Loading Advanced Meshes and Geometries 9. Animations and Moving the Camera 10. Loading and Working with Textures 11. Render Postprocessing 12. Adding Physics and Sounds to Your Scene 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

THREE.LatheGeometry

THREE.LatheGeometry allows you to create shapes from a smooth curve. This curve is defined by a number of points (also called knots) and is most often called a spline. This spline is rotated around the central z axis of the object and results in vase-like and bell-like shapes. Once again, the easiest way to understand what THREE.LatheGeometry looks like is by looking at an example. This geometry is shown in 02-advanced-3d-geometries-lathe.html. The following screenshot taken from the example shows this geometry:

In the preceding screenshot, you can see the points used to create this geometry as a set of small red spheres. The positions of these points are passed in to THREE.LatheGeometry, together with a couple of other arguments. Before we look at all the arguments, let's look at the code used to create the individual...

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