ASCII TURNED SHAPE

Question

How can we depict a turned shape simply and nicely using ascii characters in 3D space?

I suggest this method :

Instead of a circle we use a square rotated by 45° for the cutting section so that we only need '/' and '\' characters to draw it.

 /\
/  \  
\  /
 \/

And we use '_' character for the profiles: upper, lower and median.

  _________     
 /\        \      
/  \________\    
\  /        /       
 \/________/    

Isn't it Turning complete? Well, if you agree, write a full program or a function taking an unsigned integer value N , representing a number of steps , producing a 3d shape as described below.

The profile of this turned shape has the form of a stair step curve raising from 0 to N steps and lowering back to 0 where each step is 2 char('/') high and 5 char long ('_').

Maybe some examples describes it more clearly.

For N = 0 you may output nothing but it's not mandatory to handle it.

  N = 1

   _____ 
  /\    \ 
 /  \____\ 
 \  /    / 
  \/____/ 
.

      N = 2

        _____
       /\    \  
   ___/_ \    \__ 
  /\    \ \    \ \ 
 /  \____\ \____\_\ 
 \  /    / /    / / 
  \/____/ /    /_/ 
      \  /    / 
       \/____/ 
.

       N = 3
             _____  
            /\    \ 
        ___/_ \    \__ 
       /\    \ \    \ \ 
   ___/_ \    \ \    \ \__ 
  /\    \ \    \ \    \ \ \ 
 /  \____\ \____\ \____\_\_\ 
 \  /    / /    / /    / / / 
  \/____/ /    / /    / /_/ 
      \  /    / /    / / 
       \/____/ /    /_/ 
           \  /    / 
            \/____/ 

Rules :
- Margins are not specified.
- Standard loopholes are forbidden.
- Standard input/output methods.
- Shortest answer in bytes wins.

Answer 1

Charcoal, 70 69 bytes

ＮθＦθ«Ｊ⊕×⁷⊕ι⁰≔⊗⊕ιι↙ι↑←×⁵_Ｐ↖²→↗ι×⁴_↖ι←×⁵_↓Ｐ↙²→↘ιＪ⁻×⁹θ⊗ι⊖ι__↗ι←Ｐ←__↖ι←__

Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. Explanation:

ＮθＦθ«

Input N and loop that many times.

Ｊ⊕×⁷⊕ι⁰

Jump to the (middle) right corner of the front slice.

≔⊗⊕ιι

Get the size of the slice.

↙ι↑←×⁵_Ｐ↖²→↗ι×⁴_↖ι←×⁵_↓Ｐ↙²→↘ι

Draw the front slice.

Ｊ⁻×⁹θ⊗ι⊖ι

Jump to the bottom (that we can see) of the back slice.

__↗ι←Ｐ←__↖ι←__

Draw the back slice.

Answer 2

JavaScript (ES8),  322 282 278  272 bytes

Builds the output line by line.

f=(n,y=0,Y=(k=y>2*n)?4*n-y:y,S='___/_25__,/\\    \\25,\\/____/14_/,\\ 14,\\/____/,_____, \\____\\, /    /, \\    \\,_\\, /, \\'.split`,`)=>~Y?(y-2*n?''.padEnd(n*5-(Y>>1)*5-3-y%2-k)+S[y?Y?k*2+y%2:4:5]:'/ 03').replace(/\d/g,n=>S[+n+6].repeat(Y-(n>2||-k)>>1))+`
`+f(n,y+1):''

Try it online!

How?

For each row \$0 \le y \le 4n\$, we define:

$$k=\cases{ 0,&\text{if $y \le 2n$}\\ 1,&\text{if $y > 2n$} }$$ $$Y=\cases{ y,&\text{if $k=0$}\\ 4n-y,&\text{if $k=1$} }$$

Each row is first converted into a main pattern. A main pattern may contain digits: they are placeholders for repeated sub-patterns that are expended afterwards.

The middle row (when \$y=2n\$) is a special case which is processed separately. For all other rows, we compute the main pattern ID \$p\$ with:

$$p=\cases{ 5,&\text{if $y=0$}\\ 4,&\text{if $y \neq 0, Y=0$}\\ 2k+(y \bmod 2),&\text{otherwise}\\ }$$

There are no leading spaces for the middle row. For all other rows, the number \$s\$ of leading spaces is given by:

$$s=5n-5\left\lfloor\frac{Y}{2}\right\rfloor-3-(y\bmod 2)-k$$

There are inner sub-patterns (marked with a digit \$\le2\$) and outer sub-patterns (marked with a digit \$>2\$), which are repeated \$n_1\$ and \$n_2\$ times respectively:

$$n_1=\left\lfloor\frac{Y+k}{2}\right\rfloor\\ n_2=\left\lfloor\frac{Y-1}{2}\right\rfloor$$

The above formulae apply to the middle row as well, but are irrelevant for the first and last rows, which do not have sub-patterns.

Below is what we get for \$n=3\$:

  y Y k |  p  |  s  |   before .replace()  | n1 | n2 |      after .replace()
--------+-----+-----+----------------------+----+----+-----------------------------
  0 0 0 |  5  | 12  | ............_____    |  0 | -1 | ............_____          
  1 1 0 |  1  | 11  | .........../\    \25 |  0 |  0 | .........../\    \         
  2 2 0 |  0  |  7  | .......___/_25__     |  1 |  0 | .......___/_ \    \__      
  3 3 0 |  1  |  6  | ....../\    \25      |  1 |  1 | ....../\    \ \    \ \     
  4 4 0 |  0  |  2  | ..___/_25__          |  2 |  1 | ..___/_ \    \ \    \ \__  
  5 5 0 |  1  |  1  | ./\    \25           |  2 |  2 | ./\    \ \    \ \    \ \ \ 
  6 6 0 | n/a | n/a | / 03                 |  3 |  2 | /  \____\ \____\ \____\_\_\
  7 5 1 |  3  |  0  | \ 14                 |  3 |  2 | \  /    / /    / /    / / /
  8 4 1 |  2  |  1  | .\/____/14_/         |  2 |  1 | .\/____/ /    / /    / /_/ 
  9 3 1 |  3  |  5  | .....\ 14            |  2 |  1 | .....\  /    / /    / /    
 10 2 1 |  2  |  6  | ......\/____/14_/    |  1 |  0 | ......\/____/ /    /_/     
 11 1 1 |  3  | 10  | ..........\ 14       |  1 |  0 | ..........\  /    /        
 12 0 1 |  4  | 11  | ...........\/____/   |  0 | -1 | ...........\/____/