Form a circular cylinder by elements

Questions
1

I had tried many ways to use elements/objects to create a cylinder with top and bottom.
The result always shows the elements do not display on the circle surface area.

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When using THREE.Cylindrical you effectively work with cylindrical coordinates which can’t be used to compute points for the cylinder’s caps.

I suggest you study how CylinderGeometry generates its caps and use a similar approach for your app.

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Hi Mugen,

Thank you for replying to my question yesterday.
Actually, I also had used CylinderGeometry but I was struggling with the object position x, y, z

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Is there any simple way to solve the issue?
As a beginner, I not familiar with threejs, and feel confused about adjust object.position to form any geometry or table.

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Are you looking for something like this? https://jsfiddle.net/prisoner849/rwv0kex9/

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Thanks, prisoner, the objects have the perfect position to form a cylinder in every row,
I looking for periodic table objects that will fill up the circle areas, there are no holes at the top and bottom.

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@jaelchua
Any reference or explanatory picture of how it has to look like?

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I don’t have the picture, thanks for the help :grinning: