Weeks of 7/9/2014 - 7/15/2014

I have been trying to bring "real 3D" to C-Snap since last week, and now it works great.

• New implementation 

In the new implementation, one layer is dedicated exclusively for 3D objects as follows:

Three.js takes full control of the 3D layer so that basically we can do whatever three.js can do.  We lose some functions that used to be working (will be explained below), but take advantage of great 3D capabilities directly coming from three.js. An example of rendered 3D objects is shown below:

As you can see, there are grid lines, which can be turned on and off by the following toggle switch associated with the stage:

Moreover, we can change the position of the camera using the following blocks newly added for the stage. Using this blocks, we can change the perspective of the 3D space easily.

• Functions not working anymore

So the real 3D starts working fine, but there are some drawbacks. So far, I have noticed the following functions are not working anymore with the new implementation and needs to be implemented.
      1. Drag & drop
      2. Nesting
      3. Thumbnail display
      4. Overlapping with 2D objects

• 3D functions to be implemented

Aside from the above four functions, there are some more functions essentially for 3D:
      5.  ✔ Transformation (move x y z)
      6.  ✔ Rotation (rotate n degrees in x, m in y, l in z)
      7.  ✔ Scaling
      8. Textures (apply this image to all the surface)
      9. 3D pen (render common 3D shapes such as cube, arc, sphere, cone, ... and so on)

• Plans

5 to 7 are done.  So, I will plan to work on 8 and 9 first and then 1 and 2. Considering the time remaining for the summer, maybe I can finish 8 and 9, but not sure about 1 and 2. I will do my best and let's see how far we can go.