I just played around with the geometry of 3D objects in Papervision3D and built a simple example on how to easily modify the vertices of them. It is able to morph between 2 3D objects (cylinder and sphere). The process can be setup with a slider or automatically via the animation controls. I know there are some messy lines at the top of the final step inside the sphere but this is just a technical demonstration. You should be able to fix this with some extra lines of code. Video and source are available. Enjoy!

Video

3rd party libraries

• Papervision3D

Source code

Flex 3 project files:  Morph3D (27.82 KB)

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Emanuele Cipolloni said:

Cool demo.... but being pedantic (just a tad...) the object on the left doesn't look like a cylnder to me...

2008-05-19 08:34:10 | url

erik said:

Hi Emanuele, you are absoloutely right but this is a naming failure of Papervision3D. The cone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_(geometry)) and the cylinder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder_(geometry)) are swapped. Maybe they will rename them until the final release. I just mentioned the "incorrect" names because the code I wrote contains a sphere and a "cylinder"

2008-05-19 09:06:34 | url

Emanuele Cipolloni said:

Not an issue Very cool demo!

2008-05-19 10:50:21 | url

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