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raheem_addy — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:34:57 GMT

this is great just thinking about it

Updated Wiki: Home

objo — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:20:21 GMT

Project Description
Helix 3D Toolkit is a collection of custom controls and helper classes for WPF.

NuGet package
http://nuget.org/List/Packages/HelixToolkit (updated at every code check-in)

Features

Camera manipulation control
- Turntable rotation
- Trackball rotation
- Zoom extents
- Zoom by rectangle
- Change field-of-view
- Zoom/Rotate around the mouse down point
- Support for orthographic and perspective cameras
- Support for touch manipulation events (e.g. pinch to zoom)
Controls
- HelixViewport3D - camera manipulation, lights and a Viewport3D
- StereoView3D - cross/parallel stereo viewing
- AnaglyphView3D - anaglyph viewing (requires red/cyan glasses)
- ViewCube - rotates the view to align with selected faces of a cube
Input
- Support for 3D Connexion SpaceNavigator
- Examples for Wii remote
- Examples for Kinect
Export
- Kerkythea render engine
- Wavefront files (.obj)
- X3D (not finished)
- Collada (not finished)
- VRML97 (not finished)
- POV-Ray (not finished)
Import
- 3D Studio files (.3ds)
- Lightwave files (.lwo)
- Wavefront files (.obj)
- StereoLithography files (.stl)
MeshBuilder - generates MeshGeometry3D
- Extrude
- Revolve
- Loft
- Boxes
- Rectangular meshes
- Tubes
- Cone/Cylinder
Subdivision surfaces (Loop)
Visual3D objects
- Arrow
- Box
- Cube
- Rectangle
- Lines (screen space thickness)
- Points (screen space size)
- GridLines
- PieSlice
- Sphere
- TruncatedCone
- Tube
- Pipe
- CoordinateSystem
- Light
- PanoramaCube
- Terrain
- Text
- Billboard
- Text billboard
- Cutting planes
- SortingVisual3D (sorts transparent objects by distance from camera)
Effects
- Anaglyph shader effect

Roadmap

- Implement SharpDX based WPF and WinRT/Metro controls

Examples

Other open source WPF 3D libraries

Amazon wish list

objo's amazon.co.uk wish list

Silverlight 5 3D libraries

Commercial libraries

Ab3d.Powertoys

Other WPF3D links

Other links

Kerkythea
gle Tubing and Extrusion sourceforge (OpenGL)
three.js (Javascript)
Physijs (Javascript)
OpenProcessing (Processing)
AeroTwist

Thanks
Thanks to NDepend for supporting with a license on NDepend v4

Updated Wiki: Documentation

objo — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:11:43 GMT

The documentation is under construction

Documentation

Getting started

HelixViewport3D
- Input gestures

How to

API reference

Guidelines
- Performance

For contributors
- Reporting bugs
- Submitting patches

Updated Wiki: Home

objo — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:26:34 GMT

Project Description
Helix 3D Toolkit is a collection of custom controls and helper classes for WPF.

NuGet package
http://nuget.org/List/Packages/HelixToolkit (updated at every code check-in)

Features

Camera manipulation control
- Turntable rotation
- Trackball rotation
- Zoom extents
- Zoom by rectangle
- Change field-of-view
- Zoom/Rotate around the mouse down point
- Support for orthographic and perspective cameras
- Support for touch manipulation events (e.g. pinch to zoom)
Controls
- HelixViewport3D - camera manipulation, lights and a Viewport3D
- StereoView3D - cross/parallel stereo viewing
- AnaglyphView3D - anaglyph viewing (requires red/cyan glasses)
- ViewCube - rotates the view to align with selected faces of a cube
Input
- Support for 3D Connexion SpaceNavigator
- Examples for Wii remote
- Examples for Kinect
Export
- Kerkythea render engine
- Wavefront files (.obj)
- X3D (not finished)
- Collada (not finished)
- VRML97 (not finished)
- POV-Ray (not finished)
Import
- 3D Studio files (.3ds)
- Lightwave files (.lwo)
- Wavefront files (.obj)
- StereoLithography files (.stl)
MeshBuilder - generates MeshGeometry3D
- Extrude
- Revolve
- Loft
- Boxes
- Rectangular meshes
- Tubes
- Cone/Cylinder
Subdivision surfaces (Loop)
Visual3D objects
- Arrow
- Box
- Cube
- Rectangle
- Lines (screen space thickness)
- Points (screen space size)
- GridLines
- PieSlice
- Sphere
- TruncatedCone
- Tube
- Pipe
- CoordinateSystem
- Light
- PanoramaCube
- Terrain
- Text
- Billboard
- Text billboard
- Cutting planes
- SortingVisual3D (sorts transparent objects by distance from camera)
Effects
- Anaglyph shader effect

Roadmap

- Implement SharpDX based WPF and WinRT/Metro controls

Examples

Other open source WPF 3D libraries

Silverlight 5 3D libraries

Commercial libraries

Ab3d.Powertoys

Other WPF3D links

Other links

Kerkythea
gle Tubing and Extrusion sourceforge (OpenGL)
three.js (Javascript)
Physijs (Javascript)
OpenProcessing (Processing)
AeroTwist

Thanks
Thanks to NDepend for supporting with a license on NDepend v4

Updated Wiki: Home

objo — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:01:37 GMT

Project Description
Helix 3D Toolkit is a collection of custom controls and helper classes for WPF 3D. The toolkit contains controls to manipulate the camera, classes to import models (3ds,lwo,obj) and export models.

NuGet package
http://nuget.org/List/Packages/HelixToolkit (updated at every code check-in)

Features

Camera manipulation control
- Turntable rotation
- Trackball rotation
- Zoom extents
- Zoom by rectangle
- Change field-of-view
- Zoom/Rotate around the mouse down point
- Support for orthographic and perspective cameras
- Support for touch manipulation events (e.g. pinch to zoom)
Controls
- HelixViewport3D - camera manipulation, lights and a Viewport3D
- StereoView3D - cross/parallel stereo viewing
- AnaglyphView3D - anaglyph viewing (requires red/cyan glasses)
- ViewCube - rotates the view to align with selected faces of a cube
Input
- Support for 3D Connexion SpaceNavigator
- Examples for Wii remote
- Examples for Kinect
Export
- Kerkythea render engine
- Wavefront files (.obj)
- X3D (not finished)
- Collada (not finished)
- VRML97 (not finished)
- POV-Ray (not finished)
Import
- 3D Studio files (.3ds)
- Lightwave files (.lwo)
- Wavefront files (.obj)
- StereoLithography files (.stl)
MeshBuilder - generates MeshGeometry3D
- Extrude
- Revolve
- Loft
- Boxes
- Rectangular meshes
- Tubes
- Cone/Cylinder
Subdivision surfaces (Loop)
Visual3D objects
- Arrow
- Box
- Cube
- Rectangle
- Lines (screen space thickness)
- Points (screen space size)
- GridLines
- PieSlice
- Sphere
- TruncatedCone
- Tube
- Pipe
- CoordinateSystem
- Light
- PanoramaCube
- Terrain
- Text
- Billboard
- Text billboard
- Cutting planes
- SortingVisual3D (sorts transparent objects by distance from camera)
Effects
- Anaglyph shader effect

Roadmap

- Implement SharpDX based WPF and WinRT/Metro controls

Examples

Other open source WPF 3D libraries

Silverlight 5 3D libraries

Commercial libraries

Ab3d.Powertoys

Other WPF3D links

Other links

Kerkythea
gle Tubing and Extrusion sourceforge (OpenGL)
three.js (Javascript)
Physijs (Javascript)
OpenProcessing (Processing)
AeroTwist

New Comment on "Obtain and build the code"

Clutchplate — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:05:13 GMT

How can I sync/clone the source code used to build the V2011.7.1 release?

Updated Wiki: Home

objo — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:50:14 GMT

Features

Camera manipulation control
- Turntable rotation
- Trackball rotation
- Zoom extents
- Zoom by rectangle
- Change field-of-view
- Zoom/Rotate around the mouse down point
- Support for orthographic and perspective cameras
- Support for touch manipulation events (e.g. pinch to zoom)
Controls
- HelixViewport3D - camera manipulation, lights and a Viewport3D
- StereoView3D - cross/parallel stereo viewing
- AnaglyphView3D - anaglyph viewing (requires red/cyan glasses)
- ViewCube - rotates the view to align with selected faces of a cube
Input
- Support for 3D Connexion SpaceNavigator
- Examples for Wii remote
- Examples for Kinect
Export
- Kerkythea render engine
- Wavefront files (.obj)
- X3D (not finished)
- Collada (not finished)
- VRML97 (not finished)
- POV-Ray (not finished)
Import
- 3D Studio files (.3ds)
- Lightwave files (.lwo)
- Wavefront files (.obj)
- StereoLithography files (.stl)
MeshBuilder - generates MeshGeometry3D
- Extrude
- Revolve
- Loft
- Boxes
- Rectangular meshes
- Tubes
- Cone/Cylinder
Subdivision surfaces (Loop)
Visual3D objects
- Arrow
- Box
- Cube
- Rectangle
- Lines (screen space thickness)
- Points (screen space size)
- GridLines
- PieSlice
- Sphere
- TruncatedCone
- Tube
- Pipe
- CoordinateSystem
- Light
- PanoramaCube
- Terrain
- Text
- Billboard
- Text billboard
- Cutting planes
- SortingVisual3D (sorts transparent objects by distance from camera)
Effects
- Anaglyph shader effect

Roadmap

- coming soon

Examples

Other open source WPF 3D libraries

Silverlight 5 3D libraries

Commercial libraries

Ab3d.Powertoys

Other WPF3D links

Other links

Kerkythea
gle Tubing and Extrusion sourceforge (OpenGL)
three.js (Javascript)
Physijs (Javascript)
OpenProcessing (Processing)
AeroTwist

Updated Wiki: Home

objo — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:25:11 GMT

Features

Camera manipulation control
- Turntable rotation
- Trackball rotation
- Zoom extents
- Zoom by rectangle
- Change field-of-view
- Zoom/Rotate around the mouse down point
- Support for orthographic and perspective cameras
- Support for touch manipulation events (e.g. pinch to zoom)
Controls
- HelixViewport3D - camera manipulation, lights and a Viewport3D
- StereoView3D - cross/parallel stereo viewing
- AnaglyphView3D - anaglyph viewing (requires red/cyan glasses)
- ViewCube - rotates the view to align with selected faces of a cube
Input
- Support for 3D Connexion SpaceNavigator
- Examples for Wii remote
- Examples for Kinect
Export
- Kerkythea render engine
- Wavefront files (.obj)
- X3D (not finished)
- Collada (not finished)
- VRML97 (not finished)
- POV-Ray (not finished)
Import
- 3D Studio files (.3ds)
- Lightwave files (.lwo)
- Wavefront files (.obj)
- StereoLithography files (.stl)
MeshBuilder - generates MeshGeometry3D
- Extrude
- Revolve
- Loft
- Boxes
- Rectangular meshes
- Tubes
- Cone/Cylinder
Subdivision surfaces (Loop)
Visual3D objects
- Arrow
- Box
- Cube
- Rectangle
- Lines (screen space thickness)
- Points (screen space size)
- GridLines
- PieSlice
- Sphere
- TruncatedCone
- Tube
- Pipe
- CoordinateSystem
- Light
- PanoramaCube
- Terrain
- Text
- Billboard
- Text billboard
- Cutting planes
- SortingVisual3D (sorts transparent objects by distance from camera)
Effects
- Anaglyph shader effect

Roadmap

- coming soon

Examples

Other open source WPF 3D libraries

Silverlight 5 3D libraries

Commercial libraries

Ab3d.Powertoys

Other WPF3D links

Other links

Kerkythea
gle Tubing and Extrusion sourceforge (OpenGL)
three.js (Javascript)
Physijs (Javascript)
OpenProcessing (Processing)

Updated Wiki: Home

objo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:18:11 GMT

Features

Camera manipulation control
- Turntable rotation
- Trackball rotation
- Zoom extents
- Zoom by rectangle
- Change field-of-view
- Zoom/Rotate around the mouse down point
- Support for orthographic and perspective cameras
- Support for touch manipulation events (e.g. pinch to zoom)
Controls
- HelixViewport3D - camera manipulation, lights and a Viewport3D
- StereoView3D - cross/parallel stereo viewing
- AnaglyphView3D - anaglyph viewing (requires red/cyan glasses)
- ViewCube - rotates the view to align with selected faces of a cube
Input
- Support for 3D Connexion SpaceNavigator
- Examples for Wii remote
- Examples for Kinect
Export
- Kerkythea render engine
- Wavefront files (.obj)
- X3D (not finished)
- Collada (not finished)
- VRML97 (not finished)
- POV-Ray (not finished)
Import
- 3D Studio files (.3ds)
- Lightwave files (.lwo)
- Wavefront files (.obj)
- StereoLithography files (.stl)
MeshBuilder - generates MeshGeometry3D
- Extrude
- Revolve
- Loft
- Boxes
- Rectangular meshes
- Tubes
- Cone/Cylinder
Subdivision surfaces (Loop)
Visual3D objects
- Arrow
- Box
- Cube
- Rectangle
- Lines (screen space thickness)
- Points (screen space size)
- GridLines
- PieSlice
- Sphere
- TruncatedCone
- Tube
- Pipe
- CoordinateSystem
- Light
- PanoramaCube
- Terrain
- Text
- Billboard
- Text billboard
- Cutting planes
- SortingVisual3D (sorts transparent objects by distance from camera)
Effects
- Anaglyph shader effect

Roadmap

- coming soon

Examples

Other open source WPF 3D libraries

Silverlight 5 3D libraries

Commercial libraries

Ab3d.Powertoys

Other links

Maximize WPF 3D Performance
3D Programming for Windows
The Twelve Days of WPF 3D
Improve WPF 3D
Kerkythea
gle Tubing and Extrusion sourceforge (OpenGL)
three.js (Javascript)
Physijs (Javascript)

Updated Wiki: PolyhedronDemo

objo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:05:46 GMT

Polyhedron demo

Open the "ExampleBrowser" application to run this example.
The source code can be found in Source\Examples\ExampleBrowser\Examples\Polyhedron

Features

Stella octangula

It is currently just showing a hand-coded stella octangula, I would like a more generic algorithm to generate the models...

Wikipedia articles

Updated Wiki: ChamferDemo

objo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:05:30 GMT

Chamfer demo

Open the "ExampleBrowser" application to run this example.
The source code can be found in Source\Examples\ExampleBrowser\Examples\Chamfer

Features

Chamfering of corners of a cube

Updated Wiki: VoxelDemo

objo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:05:18 GMT

Voxel demo

Open the "ExampleBrowser" application to run this example.
The source code can be found in Source\Examples\ExampleBrowser\Examples\Voxels

Features

HelixView3D control
Selection and preview of 3D models

Voxels
Mr. Doob's HTML5 demo
3dtin

Add	Click with the left mouse button
Remove	Press shift and click the left mouse button
C	Clear all
A	Zoom to fit

Updated Wiki: RubikDemo

objo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:05:10 GMT

Rubik demo

Open the "ExampleBrowser" application to run this example.
The source code can be found in Source\Examples\ExampleBrowser\Examples\Rubik

Example using the HelixView3D control.
The cubelets are manipulated using standard WPF transforms and animations.

Updated Wiki: FlightsDemo

objo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:05:02 GMT

Flights demo

Open the "ExampleBrowser" application to run this example.
The source code can be found in Source\Examples\ExampleBrowser\Examples\Flights

Features

Example using the tube visual.
Click on two points to calculate the great circle distance between them.
Specify from/to airports and see the flight route.
Flight distance and CO₂ emission per passenger is calculated.

Issues

The auto-complete box is simplified (just using a ComboBox), should try the WPF Toolkit AutoCompleteBox...

Updated Wiki: TubeDemo

objo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:04:53 GMT

Tube demo

Open the "ExampleBrowser" application to run this example.
The source code can be found in Source\Examples\ExampleBrowser\Examples\Tube

Using the TubeVisual3D to show Borromean rings.

Updated Wiki: SurfaceDemo

objo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:56:53 GMT

Surface demo

Open the "SurfaceDemo" application to run this example.
The source code can be found in Source\Examples\SurfaceDemo

Features

HelixView3D control
Evaluation of parametric surfaces.
Stereo and anaglyph views.
Export

Updated Wiki: WiiDemo

objo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:46:44 GMT

Wii remote demo

Open the "ExampleBrowser" application to run this example.
The source code can be found in Source\Examples\ExampleBrowser\Examples\Wii

This is a test of the Wiimotelib - using a wii remote to control the transformation of a model. I also implemented mouse cursor control with the remote, this can be used to change the camera position!

Wiimotelib
Managed Library for Nintendo's Wiimote
Wiibrew

WII button	Description
1	Toggle model transform manipulation on/off
2	Toggle mouse cursor control on/off
Home	Zoom to fit
Plus	Zoom in
Minus	Zoom out
A	Left mouse button
B	Right mouse button
A+B	Middle mouse button

A simplified semi-submersible

Updated Wiki: TransparencyDemo

objo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:46:05 GMT

Transparency demo

Open the "ExampleBrowser" application to run this example.
The source code can be found in Source\Examples\ExampleBrowser\Examples\Transparency

This application demonstrates how to use the SortingVisual3D to sort child objects with distance to camera.
For simple scenes without overlapping objects this will help to make transparency look right.

XAML

        <ht:HelixViewport3D InfiniteSpin="True">
            <ht:SunLight/>
            <ht:SortingVisual3D x:Name="sortingVisual1">
                <ht:RectangleVisual3D Origin="0,0,0" Normal="1,0,0" LengthDirection="0,1,0" Fill="#80FF0000"/>
                <ht:RectangleVisual3D Origin="1,0,0" Normal="1,0,0" LengthDirection="0,1,0" Fill="#8000FF00"/>
                <ht:RectangleVisual3D Origin="-1,0,0" Normal="1,0,0" LengthDirection="0,1,0" Fill="#800000FF"/>

                <ht:CubeVisual3D Center="-3,0,0" SideLength="1" Fill="Black"/>
                <ht:CubeVisual3D Center="3,0,0" SideLength="1" Fill="Black"/>
            </ht:SortingVisual3D>
        </ht:HelixViewport3D>

Updated Wiki: RhinoDemo

objo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:45:57 GMT

Rhino demo

Open the "RhinoDemo" application to run this example.
The source code can be found in Source\Examples\RhinoDemo

This is a small test to see how close it is possible to resemble a well-known user interface* with the HelixViewport3D and standard WPF controls.
Note that this example is using 99% XAML and there are no actual functions implemented...

This is the demo application using WPF and Helix Toolkit:

and the original looks like this:

* will remove this demo if someone complains...

Updated Wiki: ManipulatorDemo

objo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:45:44 GMT

Manipulator demo

Open the "ExampleBrowser" application to run this example.
The source code can be found in Source\Examples\ExampleBrowser\Examples\Manipulator

This application demonstrates how to use manipulators in a scene.

XAML

        <ht:HelixViewport3D Camera="{ht:PerspectiveCamera 20,10,10}" ZoomExtentsWhenLoaded="True">
            <ht:SunLight/>

            <ht:SphereVisual3D x:Name="sphere1" Center="-4,0,0" Fill="Orange"/>
            <ht:TranslateManipulator Color="Black" Position="-4,0,0" Offset="0,0,1" Length="1" Value="{Binding Radius, ElementName=sphere1}" Direction="0,0,1"/>

            <ht:BoxVisual3D x:Name="box1" Center="-8,0,0" Fill="Orange"/>
            <ht:TranslateManipulator Color="Black" Position="-8,0,0" Offset="0,0,0.5" Length="1" Value="{Binding Height, ElementName=box1, Converter={StaticResource Multiplier}}" Direction="0,0,1"/>
            <ht:TranslateManipulator Color="Black" Position="-8,0,0" Offset="0,0.5,0" Length="1" Value="{Binding Width, ElementName=box1, Converter={StaticResource Multiplier}}" Direction="0,1,0"/>
            <ht:TranslateManipulator Color="Black" Position="-8,0,0" Offset="0.5,0,0" Length="1" Value="{Binding Length, ElementName=box1, Converter={StaticResource Multiplier}}" Direction="1,0,0"/>

            <ht:RectangleVisual3D x:Name="plane2" Origin="0,0,0" Normal="1,0,0" LengthDirection="0,1,0" Fill="Gray"/>
            <ht:RotateManipulator Color="Green" Axis="0,1,0" Transform="{Binding Transform, ElementName=plane2}" TargetTransform="{Binding Transform, ElementName=plane2}" Diameter="1"/>
            <ht:RotateManipulator Color="Blue" Axis="0,0,1" Transform="{Binding Transform, ElementName=plane2}" TargetTransform="{Binding Transform, ElementName=plane2}" Diameter="1"/>
            <ht:TranslateManipulator x:Name="planeManipulator" Color="Red" Transform="{Binding Transform, ElementName=plane2}" TargetTransform="{Binding Transform,ElementName=plane2}" Direction="1,0,0"/>

            <ht:CubeVisual3D x:Name="cube1" Transform="{ht:Translate 4,0,2}" Fill="Gold"/>
            <ht:CombinedManipulator TargetTransform="{Binding Transform, ElementName=cube1}"/>

            <ht:CubeVisual3D x:Name="cube2" Transform="{ht:Translate 4,-4,1}" Fill="Silver"/>
            <ht:CombinedManipulator CanTranslateX="False" CanTranslateY="False" CanTranslateZ="False" TargetTransform="{Binding Transform, ElementName=cube2}"/>

            <ht:CubeVisual3D x:Name="cube3" Transform="{ht:Translate 4,4,1}" Fill="#cd7f32"/>
            <ht:CombinedManipulator CanRotateX="False" CanRotateY="False" CanRotateZ="False" TargetTransform="{Binding Transform, ElementName=cube3}"/>

            <ht:RectangleVisual3D Fill="#800000FF"/>            
        </ht:HelixViewport3D>