Interactions in rhino appserver

Rhino Developer compute.rhino3d
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When i use Grasshopper, there are two types of inputs -

  • one which is done via grasshopper (moving input sliders)
  • second using the display panels in rhino (moving object , changing boundaries)

In rhino appserver, first type of inputs are used as sliders , textboxes and others . How do i allow second type of inputs?
For example if i directly use rhino i can change curves or move objects. Is it possible to do these types of interactions in appserver? If yes, how? If no, what are the alternatives i have if i want to allow such interactions?

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In general, I found i quite difficult, I think if you want to directly interact in the web browser with meshes or curves three.js is probably the way to go with nurbs i haven’t found a solution.

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We are in the final development stages to develop such a feature for ShapeDiver. You can read more about it here and see a teaser video:

The idea is to expose this functionality through new Grasshopper components, which will expose geometry inputs (points and polylines at first) directly in the online 3d scene and allow them to drive the Grasshopper definitions stored on ShapeDiver.

Once the beta version is released, we are looking forward to exchange with testers and iterate depending on existing use cases. Let me know if you would like to take part in the process!

4

Is there a plan for something nurbs like?

5

In Metaball Table , we can move points around in the scene to modify a metaball field.
The javascript source code for this sample compute.rhino3d.appserver/src/examples/metaballTable/script.js at main · mcneel/compute.rhino3d.appserver · GitHub

I am using this as a starting point.