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Using JavaScript to model 3D polyhedra

Is there a JavaScript library that models 3D polyhedra using the canvas tag or SVG? Say I wanted to produce renderings of the Platonic solids, how would I best achieve this? FWIW, I'm only concerned with WebKit-based web browsers such as Safari and Chrome.

I've seen this cool demo of how to render 3D triangles, but how might I extend it to polyhedra with an arbitrary number of sides?

Solution

  • Take a look at this library: SVG-VML-3D

    It uses SVG and falls back to VML on MSIE. They do have a demo with platonic solids. I don't have a Webkit-browser handy, but presume it should work there as well.