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Apply a glow effect onto a THREE.TextGeometry object in Three.js

I have done quite a few hours of google search to see if this can be done
within the three.js environment.
I want to create a glow effect based on a TextGeometry and not a simple primitive like a sphere or cube object similar to the one in Lee StemKoski - shadow glow example below.
I have been reading and experimenting with Lee StemKoski examples
In particular with his Shader Glow example which as stated works well with simple objects but not with complex geometric shapes. Therefore I was wondering if there are any work arounds to this or other suggestions to how one could create a glow effect around text.
regards
w9914420
UPDATE: I decided to go with the mapping concept by attaching an image to the text I can create a glow effect. In this example I used a circle, but should not be too difficult to do a map for the text that I need.
UPDATE: 20/3/17 - So I had an attempt at using the theeX.atmosphere material to create that elusive text glow effect. Here are some of the results.
As you can see not quite there yet - the issue that I have is I am not able to smooth the vertices of the outer glow text more. I am not sure if it is possible any advice appreciated.
Native code used to create effect.
//normal text created
var geometry2 = threeLab.asset.simpleText('hello','my_font');
var materialme = new THREE.MeshNormalMaterial();
var mesh = new THREE.Mesh( geometry2, materialme );
this.scene.add( mesh );
// we create a secondary text object to use as glow
var geometry = threeLab.asset.simpleText('hello','my_font');
// clone for manipulation
var geoclone = geometry.clone();
//Thes functions are need to make it work in this case
geoclone.mergeVertices();
//geoclone.computeCentroids();
geoclone.computeVertexNormals();
geoclone.computeFaceNormals();
// part of threex library to make the glow scale and expand
THREEx.dilateGeometry(geoclone, 0.5);
var materialz = THREEx.createAtmosphereMaterial();
var meshHalo = new THREE.Mesh(geoclone, materialz );
//we have now our glow
this.scene.add( meshHalo );

So In the end I increased the bevelsegments of my secondary TextGeometry object which helped to smooth it. I was then able to encase my first text into the second like so:
With further tweaking I will be able to get the glow effect more subtle, but for now the effect works.
Thank you all for the input :)

Folding rectangles to form a cube using three.js

I am trying to make a cube with given 6 faces lying on the surface as a cube net with one face movable. Something like this:
In the above picture, there are 6 faces, one face ( blue one) is movable.
One can rotate them up together along their edges to form a “net”.
Once they think they are finished, they can press a “fold it” button – all edges turn up 90 degrees to create the cube (or may not be a cube if he hasn't joined the blue face at proper position.)
Below is intermediate status after pressing "fold it" button.
After the faces are folded it should like this:
The corresponding animation is given here: http://www.mathematikus.de/10/
(somehow that link is not working on mac)
I am not sure how to go about this. Any help is appreciated.
Thanking you in advance.

You can use hierarchy of objects.
var obj1 = new THREE.Mesh(...);
var obj2 = new THREE.Mesh(...);
obj1.add(obj2);
There's a good example of it.
So, using this principle, I made animation for folding the cube, given in your question. Of course, this is not the ultimate solution, this is just a starting point.
jsfiddle example
upd: I've updated the fiddle. You can start folding by clicking the PressMe button. Animation made with Tween.js (see the foldTheCube() function)

How to make a 'Flash' effect over a Sprite in Phaser.js?

I'm creating an Rpg in Phaser, and I'm trying to make a Flash effect happen over a Sprite -that means turning the Sprite all white for a moment and then returning to its original color-.
So my question is: what's the best way of achieving this effect?. I've tried two solutions so far, but i'm missing something:
Solution 1:
I tried tweening the tint parameter of the sprite, like this:
this.game.add.tween(enemy).to({
tint: 0xffffff,
}, 100, Phaser.Easing.Exponential.Out, true, 0, 0, true);
But it doesn't work since setting the tint to 0xffffff is the same as setting it to its default color.
Solution 2:
My second possible solution is adding a white square that has the same size of the sprite, and using the actual sprite as a mask for the square:
var flash = this.game.add.graphics(0, 0);
flash.beginFill(0xffffff);
flash.drawRect(enemy.x, enemy.y, enemy.width, enemy.height);
flash.endFill();
flash.mask = enemy // enemy is my Sprite
/* .. code for tweening the flash */
The problem with this solution is that the mask needs to be a PIXI.Graphics object; and I'm using a Sprite object.
So please, any guidance would be appreciated.

In the version of Pixi that Phaser 2.2.2 uses there is a 'tintCache' which basically rounds the tint value, then caches the result. This means you can't do subtle tint ramping like you're trying to do with a tween. We removed this in Phaser 2.3, so it will be available from then, but as of now it's still in dev.
Also you can tint to a 'near white' colour - only 0xffffff precisely resets the tint. But a value very close to that would still be set ok and probably have the desired result.
If you're using WebGL I would still use a tint with 'as near as white as possible' colour values and tween them. You could disable the tint cache for yourself by copying that part of the changed code from the Phaser dev branch.
In Canvas mode it's expensive though as it has to recalculate the pixels every single time you update it.
If you need to worry about Canvas performance then honestly I would create a new PNG that matches your sprite, colour it in all-white and display it over the top of your main sprite as needed and alpha it out. It's less than ideal because of the extra assets required, but it would be the fastest in canvas mode for sure. All depends on your game though is that's acceptable or not.
Edit: Also occurred to me that you could probably achieve what you need by using a blend mode too, such as lighten. You'd duplicate your main sprite, set the blend mode on it, display it over the top of your sprite and fade it out. This would work fine in Canvas at least.

You can use a ColorMatrixFilter on the Sprite. In Phaser, you may have to manually load in the PIXI script first:
game.load.script('filter', 'js/filters/ColorMatrixFilter.js');
Use this for white:
var filter = new PIXI.ColorMatrixFilter();
filter.matrix = [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,1];
this.game.filter = [filter];
You can also tween the matrix values if you want a smooth transition.

How to auto focus camera on a point in three.js?

I want to know is there any built-in feature for auto focus a camera into a point in three.js so that the rest of the environment became relatively blur like something we have in these examples ?
http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/animation_physics_level.html
http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/animation_physics_ammo.html
The code in XG library that enabled auto focus, is something like this:
renderer.dofEnabled = false;
renderer.dofAutofocus = true;
renderer.dofAutofocusPoint.set( 0.5, 0.35 );
renderer.dofFocusDistance = 10;
renderer.dofFocusMaxBlur = 0.2;
I don't know about the XG library history but It seems that XG library in above links, is based on three.js but we don't have any camera auto focus or dofEnabled in three.js.
If there is some easy way to do it in three.js, please let me know, if not, any suggestions to know how to implement it is so much appreciated.
I don't know, but It seems that XG library is something private and the code is obfuscated so I can't find out how the focus feature implemented.

I just find out that, this effect is called "depth of field" (dof) and already implemented by using MeshDepthMaterial and there is an example in threejs website:
http://threejs.org/examples/webgl_postprocessing_dof.html

Three.js custom geometry raycaster catches wrong object

I need to use my own gemetry since the default cube does not look like it should in wireframe mode (now it is made of triangles instead of squares).
So I made my own geometry and it looks ok, but the raycaster does not work as good with my own objects as it does with the built-in cubes.
var cube = new THREE.Line( getCube( 5,5, 5), new THREE.LineDashedMaterial( { color: 0x000000,dashSize: 1, gapSize: 0.1, linewidth: 2 } ),THREE.LinePieces );
where getCube() returns
var geometry = new THREE.Geometry()
See example:
http://jsfiddle.net/QHjSM/12/
6 colour filled box on the top are the defalt THREE.CubeGeometry boxes, and selecting them with raycaster works perfect, 6 wireframe are my custom geometry.
Issues:
If you try to click outside the box, but pretty close to it it will catch the box, and if you click inside the box (in the middle of it) it will not catch it neither.
But the most annoying thing is that if you click inside one box, but close to another one sometimes it catches not the wrong one.
I'm not sure can it be done better, tried all the geometry.compute... methods, but still no effect.

Good day, your custom cubes are not in fact cubes. They are just a stack of lines with no cooresponding faces. Your selection is not returning as expected due to the fact that your "cubes" indeed have gapping holes right threw them. What you can do is in your getCube function after you've built the vertices you can then build all your faces in a similar way.
Have a look at this example: Issue with custom geometry and face normal
Generally you'll need to carefully pattern out every 3 set of vertices so that when you build the faces there in a clock-wise direction so that the normals will be computerd correctly. Here's a basic example of adding a face.
geometry.faces.push(new THREE.Face3(1,2,3));
BUT! Note that this will result in the same aforementioned diagonal lines through your wireframe. So, for your use case why not simply use both the basic cube mesh with picking and remove the wireframe then overlay the line drawn boxes as your custom wireframe. Best of both worlds.
FYI, you probably already know but Face4 is gone, so you'll need to use Face3 and some sort of custom wireframe to do this anyway.
Edit:
I did a little test to your fiddle, noticed something strange. Using the CanvasRender, even with the wireframe off the default cube you still see the diagonal lines! I try WebGLRenderer and it's fine. I'll have to look into that one further.
CanvasRenderer
http://jsfiddle.net/QHjSM/13/
WebGLRenderer
http://jsfiddle.net/QHjSM/14/
Me again, hmm it appears those ghosted face lines are visible in all the CanvasRenderer examples that use a MeshBasicMaterial on the Three.js site. The only thing I was able to do was simply reduce the opacity of the cube mesh material to 0.1 to lessen the effect. I suppose the only other method is to switch to the WebGLRenderer but I look forward to being wrong on this :) Here's the last test
http://jsfiddle.net/QHjSM/16/