Procedural 3D Antique Cannon With Blueprints
Generate a 3D model of a historical 1857 Napoleon field cannon using procedural Three.js and WebGPU techniques. Produces technical drawings and simulations in real-time without external assets.
Procedural 3D Antique Cannon With Blueprints
You are an expert procedural 3D graphics engineer specializing in Three.js r168+, WebGPU rendering, and TSL (Three.js Shading Language). You will build a historically accurate, fully parametric 1857 Napoleon 12-pounder field cannon—every component generated via procedural geometry and TSL shaders, with no external assets, texture images, or Blender imports.
# Historical Reference
The Napoleon (Canon obusier de 12) featured:
- Smoothbore bronze barrel, ~1.66m long, 11.43cm bore
- Cascabel, breech, reinforce rings, trunnions, muzzle swell
- Two-wheel wooden carriage with trail, axle, and elevating screw
- Cast ornamentation: eagle, "N" cipher (optional fidelity)
# Architecture Requirements
1. **Procedural Geometry**: Generate barrel (CylinderGeometry or BufferGeometry with custom vertices), carriage, wheels (spokes as merged cylinders), and all fittings using Three.js primitives and CSG-style boolean operations if needed (via three-bvh-csg or manual mesh construction).
2. **TSL Material Shaders**:
- Bronze: anisotropic reflectance with age patina (green/brown procedural noise)
- Wood: grain via 3D noise functions (Perlin/Simplex), directional anisotropy
- Iron fittings: rough metal with rust spots
- All shading in TSL node graph syntax (e.g., `tslFn`, `mx_fractal_noise_vec3`, `positionLocal`, `normalView`)
3. **WebGPU Renderer**: Initialize with `WebGPURenderer`, enable `toneMapping`, `shadows`, and HDR environment lighting (procedural sky or PMREM from gradient).
# Interactive Technical Drawings (Live Orthographic Views)
Render four synchronized auxiliary viewports alongside the main perspective camera:
- **Elevation View** (side profile): Orthographic camera, XZ plane, overlay elevation angle arc and numerical readout
- **Plan View** (top-down): Orthographic YZ plane, wheel and trail footprint
- **Pressure Diagram**: Schematic overlay showing breech pressure curve during firing sequence (animated gradient or line graph mapped onto a 2D plane in 3D space)
- **Trajectory Projection**: Parabolic arc from muzzle, color-coded by velocity, with range markers; updates live as elevation changes
All viewports render to separate `<canvas>` elements or split-screen via `setViewport()` and `setScissor()`.
# Real-Time Firing Simulation
- **Elevation Control**: GUI slider (dat.GUI or lil-gui) adjusts barrel angle (−5° to +15°), updates elevation view annotation and trajectory curve in real time
- **Firing Animation**:
1. Recoil: barrel slides back along carriage rails (spring physics), carriage wheels compress
2. Smoke: volumetric particle system (instanced meshes with alpha-blended TSL shader, turbulence noise)
3. Muzzle flash: additive bloom, procedural flash geometry
4. Projectile: spherical cannonball follows ballistic path computed from elevation and muzzle velocity (≈440 m/s historical)
5. Pressure graph animates spike and decay over ~50ms
- Reset button to return to battery.
# Deliverables
- Single-file or modular ES6 structure: HTML entry point, `main.js`, `cannon.js` (geometry), `materials.js` (TSL shaders), `firing.js` (animation), `viewports.js` (ortho cameras)
- Inline comments explaining TSL node construction and procedural geometry math
- Smooth 60fps on WebGPU-capable browsers (Chrome Canary, Edge Canary with --enable-unsafe-webgpu)
- All parameters (barrel length, bore diameter, carriage dimensions, elevation, muzzle velocity) exposed as constants at top of file for easy tweaking
# Constraints
- Zero external files: no .obj, .gltf, .png, .jpg, .hdr—everything generated at runtime
- Pure TSL for materials (no legacy ShaderMaterial GLSL unless WebGPU fallback required)
- Physically plausible (not photorealistic): focus on engineering clarity over artistic detail
# Context
User application: {{application-context}}
Begin with the HTML scaffold and WebGPU renderer initialization, then build the cannon geometry module, followed by TSL materials, viewport setup, and firing sequence. Provide the complete, runnable code.Prompt Guide
Constructs a 3D model of a field cannon with procedural geometry and shaders, while simulating firing animations, interactive controls, and technical drawings in real-time.
- Use a recent version ofThree.js (r168+ recommended) for compatibility with WebGPU.
- Optimize shader performance by usingsimplified noise functions in TSL.
- Test across different browsers toensure consistent WebGPU behavior.
- 1Prepare your development environment with
support for Three.js, WebGPU, and TSL.
- 2Input your project-specific context in
the {{application-context}} variable.
- 3Follow the structured prompt to
build and configure the 3D elements and shaders.
No Perfect Match?
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