verb

What is verb?

verb is a library for creating and manipulating NURBS surfaces and curves in many languages including JavaScript.

verb provides advanced tools like derivative evaluation, adaptive tessellation, and intersection. Verb provides a concurrent execution runtime via WebWorkers in modern browsers and thread pools on other platforms and is suitable for use in a datacenter or in the browser.

verb is not a graphics library. It nicely compliments web graphics libraries like three.js, but is happy to live without one.

How is verb organized?

The library is split into four parts:

Most people should just use verb.geom. The other parts provide more powerful features and more direct access to core parts of the library.

Platforms

verb compiles for:

Getting started

Install haxe and node.js

You should have installed haxe 3.2.1 and node.js 4.2.1. If you're using OS X, ensure that you have installed XCode 7.

Install node.js dependencies:

npm install

Install haxe dependencies:

haxelib install promhx

Install grunt:

npm install -g grunt-cli

Using with JavaScript

You can install verb with npm

npm install verb-nurbs

You can use verb with require.js (AMD) or browserify (commonjs) in the browser or in node.js.

Pre-compiled JavaScript can be found in build/js.

You'll find many usage examples in the examples directory.

Compiling for JavaScript

Compile to javascript:

grunt build

Run all unit tests:

grunt test

Compiling for C#

Install mono

Install hxcs:

haxelib install hxcs

Build:

haxe buildcs.hxml

Output goes to build/cs.

Compiling for C++

Install hxcpp:

haxelib install hxcpp

Build:

haxe buildcpp.hxml

Output goes to build/cpp.

Compiling for Python

Make sure python is installed.

Build:

haxe buildpython.hxml

Output goes to build/verb.py

Compiling for PHP

Build:

haxe buildphp.hxml

Output goes to build/php

Compiling for other platforms

Haxe compiles for other platforms, including Flash and Neko. I have not tried to compile for these platforms - would you like to contribute?

Compiling for Java

verb does not currently compile for Java. It probably wouldn't be hard to do - would you like to contribute?

Using verb with three.js

You can find good examples of using verb with three in the examples directory. There's an example code showing how to convert verb geometric types in to three.js Meshes and Lines in the verb examples.