An interactive 3D hexasphere application built with Three.js, featuring real-time population management and modern build tools.

Features:

• 🌍 Interactive 3D hexasphere with click-to-select tiles
• 📊 Real-time population counter that updates every second
• 🔄 WebSocket-based live data synchronization
• 🎮 Mouse and keyboard controls for 3D navigation
• 🚀 Modern build system with hot reload
• 💾 Persistent data storage in JSON format

npm install
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:8080 to see the application with hot reload.

npm install
npm run build
npm run server

Open http://localhost:8080 to see the production application with population management.

The application includes a real-time population management system:

• Population Display: Real-time counter in the top-right corner
• Auto Growth: Population increases by 1 every second
• Data Persistence: Population data is saved to data.json
• WebSocket Sync: All connected clients see updates instantly

• GET /api/population - Get current population data
• POST /api/population - Update population count or growth rate
• GET /api/population/reset - Reset population to 1,000,000

# Get current population
curl http://localhost:8080/api/population

# Update population to 5 million with growth rate of 2 per second
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/population \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"count": 5000000, "rate": 2}'

# Reset to default
curl http://localhost:8080/api/population/reset

• npm run dev - Start development server with hot reload
• npm run build - Build for production
• npm run server - Start production server
• npm run prod - Build and start production server
• npm run clean - Clean build artifacts

src/
├── main.js              # Entry point
├── population-manager.js # Real-time population management
├── ui-manager.js         # UI components and population display
├── scene-manager.js      # Three.js scene management
├── camera-controller.js  # Camera controls
├── input-handler.js      # Input event handling
└── Sphere/              # Hexasphere implementation
    ├── hexaSphere.js    # Main sphere generator
    ├── tile.js          # Individual tile logic
    ├── face.js          # Face geometry
    └── ...

var radius = 15;        // Radius used to calculate position of tiles
var subDivisions = 5;   // Divide each edge of the icosohedron into this many segments
var tileWidth = 0.9;    // Add padding (1.0 = no padding; 0.1 = mostly padding)

var hexasphere = new Hexasphere(radius, subDivisions, tileWidth);
for(var i = 0; i< hexasphere.tiles.length; i++){
   // hexasphere.tiles[i].centerPoint contains x,y,z of the tile
   // hexasphere.tiles[i].boundary contains an ordered array of the boundary points
   // hexasphere.tiles[i].neighbors contains a list of all the neighboring tiles
}

var waveformObjString = hexasphere.toObj() // export as waveform .obj to use in 3d modelling software
var jsonString = hexasphere.toJson() // export it as a json object

Check out a demo on my website. The demo uses Three.js to render the sphere, but that is not an inherit dependency of hexasphere.js. You can generate a waveform (.obj) model directly from the website, if you don't want to deal with the javascript library.

This project has been enhanced with a modern development setup using Webpack and ES6 modules.

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start development server with hot reload
npm run dev
# Opens http://localhost:3000

# Build for production
npm run build

# Build for development (unminified)
npm run build:dev

GridWorld/
├── src/                    # Source code (ES6 modules)
│   ├── main.js            # Application entry point
│   ├── scene-manager.js   # Three.js scene management
│   ├── input-handler.js   # Input handling
│   ├── ui-manager.js      # UI components
│   └── Sphere/            # Hexasphere library
├── css/                   # Stylesheets
├── dist/                  # Production build output
├── webpack.config.js      # Build configuration
└── package.json          # Dependencies and scripts

• Hot Module Replacement: See changes instantly while developing
• Modern JavaScript: ES6 modules, async/await support
• Optimized Builds: Code splitting and minification for production
• Development Server: Live reload and error overlay
• Source Maps: Debug with original source code

If you port this to other languages, let me know and I'll link to it here:

• Objective-C: pkclsoft/HexasphereDemo
• Unity C#: Em3rgencyLT/Hexasphere

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2014-2017 Robert Scanlon

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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