Making portals with ThreeJS - three.js

Im trying to make portals with ThreeJS. I found this page Mini-Portals That explains how to make portals with OpenGL. So i tried to replicate the portal view function in TJS. Now this is my result:
The left portal(right camera) is normal camera and right portal(left camera) is the view matrix gotten from tutorial. As you can see the portal view on the right is quite weird.
The main issue here is that the scaling of the images is all wrong and the angle im seeing the images in portal is wrong. Currently its flat and show where i pointed the camera, but what i want is portal where the scaling is correct(image on portal is same scale as the world itself) and what is see in portal depends on the angle where im watching.
What am i doing wrong and what should i do to fix it?

For people who want a great Portal system with Three.js :
https://github.com/markotaht/Portals

Its been a while. But i have found a way to do what i needed. The 4th parameter in not needed. Basically i send camera, and my 2 portal objects(Meshes) to my function. Instead of using the matrix multiplication way(does not work in ThreeJS because ThreeJS does some weird stuff with it) I split the matrices into pieces. Then manually calculate the new position and rotation and construct the new matrix from it. And i set this new matrix as my cameras worldMatrix. Voila a working portal. Next step is oblique view fusrum, because we want our nearplane to be the portal otherwise we can have some objects between the camera and portal.
And the rendering procedure itself uses stencil buffer to render the portals correctly. If anyone needs, this will help you: https://th0mas.nl/2013/05/19/rendering-recursive-portals-with-opengl/
function portal_view(camera, src_portal, dst_portal, kordaja) {
src_portal.updateMatrixWorld()
dst_portal.updateMatrixWorld()
camera.updateMatrixWorld()
var camerapos = new THREE.Vector3();
var camerarot = new THREE.Quaternion();
var camerascale = new THREE.Vector3();
camera.matrix.decompose(camerapos,camerarot,camerascale);
var srcpos = new THREE.Vector3();
var srcquat = new THREE.Quaternion();
var srcscale = new THREE.Vector3();
src_portal.matrix.decompose(srcpos, srcquat, srcscale);
var destquat = new THREE.Quaternion();
var destpos = new THREE.Vector3();
var destscale = new THREE.Vector3();
dst_portal.matrix.decompose(destpos,destquat,destscale);
var diff = camerapos.clone().sub(srcpos);
var ydiff = src_portal.rotation.y - dst_portal.rotation.y - Math.PI;
diff.applyAxisAngle(new THREE.Vector3(0,1,0),-ydiff);
var newcampos = diff.add(destpos);
var yrotvec = new THREE.Quaternion().setFromAxisAngle(new THREE.Vector3(0,1,0),-ydiff);
console.log(yrotvec)
srcquat = srcquat.multiply(destquat.inverse());
camerarot = camerarot.multiply(yrotvec);
var inverse_view_to_source = new THREE.Matrix4();
inverse_view_to_source.compose(newcampos,camerarot,camerascale);
return inverse_view_to_source;
}
NOTE:
I moved my answer to the answers so i can mark an answer.

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global variable
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threejs - creating 3d perspective for a line

I'm working on an app where I visualize ATV trails in a 3d perspective (NAIP imagery draped over elevation data). I am using three.js for the rendering engine.
In the above image, the white line you see is just a THREE.Line instance, where I convert a trails gps coordinates into threejs coordinates. I'd like to add more of 3d perspective to this line. I tried implementing a THREE.TubeGeometry where the path was a THREE.CatmullRomCurve3 using the same Vector3 points as how I built the line you see in the image above. That did not produce a desirable result...
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UPDATE 1:
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tubeGeometry = new THREE.TubeBufferGeometry(
[YOUR_PATH_HERE],
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2, // <--- This 2 keeps 2D (i.e. not a tube!!!!)
true );
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mesh.add( wireframe );
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Update:
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var tubeGeometry = new THREE.TubeGeometry(curve,80,1,2,false);
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....
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Simple holes aren't rendered properly in Three.js

I have a simple rectangular wall and I like to place multiple window holes on it. It always works great for the first hole, but as soon as I add additional holes the polygon becomes messed up. See the images below to see what I'm talking about.
How can I draw holes properly in Three.js?
The right hole is not drawn properly.
After increasing the height of the right hole the entire wall mesh becomes halfcut.
Here is a sample code that causes above problem:
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windowHole.lineTo(0.14999999888241292, 0.3448275862068965)
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at public_html/libs/three.js:27785
It turned out that this was a bug that is now fixed in version 66dev.
The bug was reported and discussed here:
https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/issues/3386
The fixed version that I'm using now is developer built version 66dev committed at Jan 27th, 2014 here:
https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/tree/dev/build
I assume this fix will be merged with the main three.js soon, but until then you can use the link above.
Some code might help. if possible link your code in jsfiddle...
just you need to change the order of the path creation... refer the link... http://jsfiddle.net/ebeit303/BuNb2/
var shape = new THREE.Shape();
shape.moveTo(-5, -5);
shape.lineTo(-5, 5);
shape.lineTo(5, 5);
shape.lineTo(5, -5);
shape.lineTo(-5, -5);
var windowHole = new THREE.Path();
windowHole.moveTo(-2,-2);
windowHole.lineTo(0,-2);
windowHole.lineTo(0,0);
windowHole.lineTo(-2,0);
windowHole.lineTo(-2,-2);
shape.holes.push(windowHole);
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windowHole1.lineTo(3,4);
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Select cloned mesh

Problem :
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I created a simple jsfiddle example: jsfiddle
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or
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In both cases result is the same, on click one - selects both. I tried to change material id, doesn't help.
If I create new material, then everything is fine, I can select each object separately :
var cloned = new THREE.Mesh(object.geometry, new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial(....));
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So in your demo, you only have one instance of the material that both meshes share.
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