New Mathbox^2 Release on NPM, development resumes

[Sam Ritchie]

Hey all,

Just wanted to send out a low key announcement of some work I've been doing on the Mathbox codebase (along with the Threestrap and Shadergraph dependencies).

Mathbox

... is now ported to modular ES6 javascript, away from Coffeescript 1. It's fully compatible with the latest three.js version (r137), and I've had it working with every version from r73 onward, so let me know if you need to use it with code before r118.

- The code lives here: https://gitgud.io/unconed/mathbox

- Version 2.1.0 is released on NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mathbox

- For an example of how easy it was to switch the new modular version of this library, see my PR upgrading math3d-react to r137 three.js and the latest mathbox: https://github.com/ChristopherChudzicki/math3d-react/pull/330

Threestrap

The main change in Threestrap (also ES6 javascript now) is that it no longer attaches anything to the "THREE" global. Instead the library exports all classes that were previously attached.

- The code lives here: https://github.com/unconed/threestrap

- Version 0.4.0 is released on NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sicmutils/threestrap (under the @sicmutils org until I can get the bare handle back)

Shadergraph

- The code lives here: https://github.com/unconed/shadergraph

- Version 2.1.2 is released on NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/shadergraph

What prompted this / what's next?

My goal is to get a mathbox-react library published, hopefully using Christopher's wonderful work in math3d-react, and then publish a bunch of react components we can use to build beautiful mathematical visualizations.

This is part of my larger quest to build an executable textbook. https://github.com/sicmutils/sicmutils is another piece of the puzzle, etc, etc.

Anyhow, if anyone's still reading this list, please give the new library a try and file tickets with any issues you find!

Cheers,

Sam

[Abhimanyu Jha]

Hey Sam, is there a way now to use Mathbox in React? Thanks!

[Sam Ritchie]

Yes! There is a wonderful react wrapper by Chris Chudzicki here: https://github.com/ChristopherChudzicki/mathbox-react

You can see it in action over at https://www.math3d.org/

Or, from Clojure, in this demo: https://mathbox.mentat.org/dev/mathbox/examples/math/pq_knot.html

It’s light on documentation now but works very well for manipulating Mathbox scenes declaratively. I’d recommend looking at the storybook stories for an example of how to get started. Please ask questions here as well, and we’ll get the docs into a good state sometime soon here.

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