Here’s a quick one for you - I’ve just found Grant Skinner’s first foray into Papervision3D and, I must say, it’s very cool.
His experiment is titled “Yggdrasil” which he explains: “The Yggdrasil is the world tree in Norse mythology that spans the underworld, earth and the heavens”.
The tree is generated on the fly as a procedural model and textures… and it looks very pretty. Jump through for a better look and the link:
I’m settling in at the new job nicely, thanks for asking! This week I had the opportunity to look into Papervision3D and AIR… and let me just say, my Flash-fever has officially returned. Isn’t it great when something like this happens and you realise just how much you love your work!
On Thursday night I went along to the local Twitter meetup group, ‘MTUB‘ (MelbTwitUngrdBrigade). Lightmaker Melbourne sponsored the event and as a result I was prompted to throw something together for the big screen. … so I grabbed the opportunity and decided to visualise the group’s twitter feed PV3D style.
Here’s a quick little glimpse of Flash goodness. The dynamic duo that go by the name of “2D Boy” (I love you, 2D boy!) have just launched a mini-project called “Human Brain Cloud”.
Pitched as a massively multiplayer word association game, participants contribute to a web of semantic associations by responding to a cue word with the first word that comes to mind.
