Box

Description

simple box

This is the simplest of the 3D shapes, a simple axis aligned box with user definable width (x-axis), height (y-axis) and depth (z-axis).

Parts

The box has six sides and when first created each side has a different colour. Each side can have its own drawmode so there is virtually no limit to the range of render combinations for a box.

Description Number Named bit-flag
Bottom face
Top face
Front face
Back face
Left face
Right face 		0
1
2
3
4
5		 S3D.BOTTOM
S3D.TOP
S3D.FRONT
S3D.BACK
S3D.LEFT
S3D.RIGHT

Model View Orientation

box with axes

By default the model view origin is at the geometric centre of the box. This picture shows the origin and the X (red), Y (green) and (Z) axes. Notice that the poistive Y direction is down, this is the opposite of OpenGL but Processing chose this to make it easier for sketchers to move between 2D and 3D,

Creating a Box

Constructors 
Box(float w, float h, float d)
Box(float w, float h, float d, Orientation orientation)
Parameter Comments 
w, h, d
 width, height and depth 
orientation
 Allows the user to specify another model view orienation for this shape.
See Orientation guide.