FE 'tkGooie' Utilities

A Menu of
Tk (and shell)
script CODE
of some

'3Dtools'

utilities

(FE = Freedom Environment)

GUI interface of a
3D-Parametric-Surface-Viewer
FE 'tkGooie'

FE Home Page > FE Downloads Page >

FE 'tkGooies' Description Page >

This 3Dtools CODE Menu Page

! Note !
Many more 'tkGooies' 3D utility scripts may be added
--- and the scripts here may be revised occasionally.

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OVERVIEW of '3Dtools'
--- in the FE 'tkGooies' system :

A description of the FE 'tkGooies' system is available via a 'tkGooies' Description page. That page points out that the 'tkGooies' are a collection of utilities in categories such as

  • 3Dtools
  • AUDIOtools
  • FILEmanagers
  • IMAGEtools
  • INTERNETtools
  • MATHtools
  • PLOTtools
  • SELECTORtools
  • SYSTEMtools
  • TEXTtools
  • VIDEOtools
  • Tk-GUIs EMBELLISHED demos
  • Tk-GAME menus
  • Tk-WIKI demos
  • MORE

Just below is a list of links to pages that present the source code of a growing collection of the '3Dtools' in the FE 'tkGooies' system ... that is, growing provided I keep growing older.

3Dtools Menu

(List of Links to pages that present descriptions
and CODE for '3Dtools' 'tkGooie' scripts)


The following 3Dtools-done-with-Tk-GUI's
are on a 'to-do' list.

  • A 3D '.hgt' Binary Terrain File Loader-and-Examiner
    (reads HGT files, with OBJ file output of sub-sections)

  • A 3D Molecule File Loader-and-Examiner
    (reads industry-standard chemical files)

  • A 3D 'point cloud' Display-Examine utility
    (reads from OBJ or XYZ file ; numeric point-IDs shown)

  • An Image-Point-Picker to 3D-Terrain-File Generator
    (Example: points on contour maps to 3D terrain OBJ file)

  • An Image-Point-Picker to 2D Polygonal Curves
    (Example: font images to polygonal curves to OBJ lines file)
    (See 'MAPtools' tkGooies for a similar tool.)

  • 3D Models Extruded from 2D Polygonal Curves
    (Example: make 3D block letters and numerals in OBJ files)

  • A 3D Model File Translator
    (between OBJ, PLY, OFF, STL, and other files)

  • A 3D Model File Report Generator
    (to give Vertex,Edge,Polygon relationship listings,
    from OBJ input files)

  • A 3D Model File 'Touch-Up' Editor
    (to manually refine a mesh and/or collapse mesh elements)

  • A 3D auto-mesh-enhancement utility

  • A 3D mesh 'decimation' (auto-reduction) utility

  • A utility to generate Color Arrays and show them as stacks of colored rectangles

  • An Experiment in Gouraud-like shading (color interpolation) of triangles of a 3D model, on a Tk canvas

  • An Experiment in Texture Mapping of an image onto a polygon, on a Tk canvas

End of List of Code-Links.

How the code samples are presented - and other notes :

Use the list-of-links (above) to go directly to web pages that contain source code along with code-descriptions and screenshots.

The Tk script files (and other auxiliary files, if any) are in text files that can be down-loaded to your computer and implemented.

To download, simply 'right-click' on a text link and, in a popup window of your web browser, choose an option such as 'Save Link Target As ...'.

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Links to pages of description-and-CODE
for FE 'tkGooies' in the '3Dtools' group
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To return to a previously visited web page location, click on the Back button of your web browser a sufficient number of times. OR, use the History-list option of your web browser.
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Page history

Page was created 2014 May 03.

Page was changed 2015 Mar 18.

Page was changed 2015 Oct 05.

Page was changed 2018 Aug 19.
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Page was changed 2019 Feb 26.
(Minor reformatting of this page.)

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