Magento custom product design

Question

I have a magento store where we want the customer to design his own furniture. Is there a way that whenever he select a texture or a color, a request is sent to the server which returns about 8 images(each representing a part of the furniture) to display the full image and have a 360 degree view of the same?

Answer 1

Magento doesn't have such functionality out of the box so you will have to write it yourself.

You could use WebGL for 3D canvas rendering but WebGL is not supported by IE as you can see from this compatibility matrix.

You should also take a look at this SO question - accepted answer contains a list of 3D rendering samples (at least some of them work in IE as well).

You will also have to implement a controller that would get called over ajax and send images for rendering back to the page.