Rotation of Curves
Project Type: Personal/Educational
Project Status : Unfinished
Software Used: OpenGL, GLFW, ImGUI
Languages Used : C++, GLSL
Primary Role(s) : Programmer
About:
This project was developed in my 2nd year of college. I wanted to tackle how to implement a simple 3d graphics engine that would display 3d meshes generated from the rotation of curves. The project was made with the use of some open libraries: OpenGL, GLFW, and ImGUI.
There is not a lot to show off as it was designed to be a very simple beginners project, but it helped me gain a better understanding of a very simplified 3d engine pipeline.
Features:
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Equation Parsing
The program allows for the user to type in some basic polynomial equations. That will then be evaluated and used to generate a 3d mesh. Trig functions are not yet supported. Parsing is achieved with the use of stacks and string regex to read the user's input.
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Mesh Generation
Values within the domain (-1,1) will be evaluated using the equations that was parsed. These values are used to setup the vertices along the xy-plane. Each vertex generated along the xy-plane are used as offsets from the x-axis to generate additional vertices that would form the final 3d shape. This will show the volume generated by rotating a polynomial curve. Below are some examples of generated 3d meshes.