Week of 7/16/2014 - 7/22/2014

• Texture mapping

Texture mapping is to apply an image to all the surface of a 3D object. Any regular images such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, ..., etc. can be textures. After loading a 3D costume of your choice, a texture can be selected from the newly added "Textures..." menu as follows:

  

Here are some examples of 3D objects with textures:

• Switch from 2D to 3D

After implemented the texture mapping function, I realized it was easy to turn 2D objects into 3D  by applying a texture to a 3D plane. So, I added a new switch to bring 2D objects into the 3D space  as follows:

Here are some examples of 2D objects in the 3D space:

 A dog is created from a 2D costume whereas a smiley is created from a user-painted image.

• To Do

Here is the updated To Do list:

    1. Drag & drop
    2. Nesting
    3. Thumbnail display
    4.  ✔ Overlapping with 2D object
    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)
By implementing the switch from 2D to 3D, 4 is actually done. Next week, I'll be working on 9 and that would conclude my summer job.