ggabogarcia / Papier

Papier aim to be an advanced and user-friendly Paper-crafting tool.

A webapp to perform 3d print from desktop printer.

This project is a (js) rewritting of my old eMesh desktop application (SDL, openGL2, C++)

It aim to provide an enought advanced paper-crafting tool to be used as an alternative prototyping tool ( as paperAce does ). Beside being as simple as possible to use.

Here is the begining of something functional. try it !

touch devices are not fully supported yet, they will be soon

Firefox encount some dificulty with WebGl on my terminal since version 60, Chromium and Gnome Web are ok

Goals :

• Provide an enought advanced paper-crafting tool to be used as an alternative prototyping tool ( as paperAce does ).
• Be as simple as possible to use.

non-Goals :

• texturing.
• mesh editing.

Standards and technologies :

• Javascript
• WebGL ( throught three.js )
• SVG
• HTML
• CSS

Third party code libraries :

• Three.js
• Hammer.js ( comming soon to provide touch devices compatibility )
• jQuery

to do :

• automate patterns final layout.
• full mobile devices support.
• clean, beautify and clarify code design.
• obtain funding to continue.
• make it able to generate autoclave tabs.
• make it able to generate assembly marks.
• make it able to generate laser-cut compatible documents.
• automate pattern selection.
• enrich configuration options.
• OOP rewrite.

done:

• application layout.
• loading 3D user models.
• manual pattern editing.
• added an alternative pattern editing mode (fast way).
• pattern flattening.
• scaling capability.

Authors

• Thomas Saint Pierre - Initial work
• Gabriel Garcia - Graphic Design | Brand identity ggabogarcia

License

This project is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

If you got interset in such kind of app and want more or if you want to contribute, feel free to contact me : [e-mail]

Feedback

Feel free to open an issue.