text.jscad

// title: Vector Text Rendering
// author: Rene K. Mueller
// date: 2013/04/22
// description: playing with vector font

function getParameterDefinitions() {
   return [
      { name: 's', initial: "Hello World!", type: 'text', caption: 'Text to render', size: 30 },
      { name: 'c', initial: "A", type: 'text', caption: 'Char to render', size: 2 }
   ];
}

function main(param) {
   var o = [];

   var l = vector_text(0,0,param.s);      // get line segments [ [ [x1,y1], [x2,y2] ...], [ ]... ]

   l.forEach(function(s) {                // process the line segments
      o.push(rectangular_extrude(s, { w:2, h:2 }));
   });

   if(param.c.length) {
      var c = vector_char(0,0,param.c);   // get data for one character
      var a = c.segments;
      for(var i=0; i<5; i++) {
         var p = [];
         a.forEach(function(s) {     
            //p.push(rectangular_extrude(s, { w:i+1, h:2 }));    // variable thickness
            p.push(circular_extrude(s,{r: i/2+1, fn: 8}));    // variable thickness
         });
         o.push(union(p).setColor(hsl2rgb(i/5,1,0.5)).translate([i*(c.width+i/2),30,0]));
      }
   }
   return union(o).scale(0.5).translate([-50,0,0]);
}


// -- simplistic circular_extrude done with cylinders + spheres

function circular_extrude(s,p) {       
   var o = [];
   var r = 1; fn = 16; rot = 0;
   if(p) {
      if(p.r) r = p.r;
      if(p.fn) fn = p.fn;
      if(p.rot!==undefined) rot = p.rot;
   }
   for(var i=0; i<s.length-1; i++) {
      var p1 = s[i].concat(0);
      var p2 = s[i+1].concat(0);
      o.push(cylinder({start: p1, end: p2, r: r, fn: fn }));
      o.push(sphere({center: true, r:r, fn: fn}).translate(p1));
      if(i==s.length-2) 
         o.push(sphere({center: true, r:r, fn: fn}).translate(p2));
   }
   return union(o);
}