Devlog #01

Started working on STLView ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

STLView is going to be a CLI 3D model viewer that renders STL and OBJ files directly in the terminal as ASCII

So far I’ve built the basic project structure and CLI with commands for:

• load
• show
• rotate
• zoom
• reset
• info
• style
• export
• version
• logo

The basic model system is in place with vertices, faces and models, along with an initial STL loader.

I’ve also added the camera system with rotation, zoom and reset, plus the first rendering styles:

• solid (like # or %)
• wireframe (only #)
• dots (only .)

The renderer can already rotate vertices and project them from 3D into 2D terminal coordinates.

Export functionality is also being prepared for saving rendered ASCII output to (.txt) or (.asc)

The big thing still missing is the actual ASCII renderer, but I am just getting started ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ🤍