Archive for ActionScripters
September 4, 2007 at 9:57 am· Filed under Flash, Play, Novel Ideas, Tech News, ActionScripters
Unless you’ve been asleep in a ditch (that can’t get wireless internet) you’ll have heard about Seam Carving and would’ve been wondering how long it will take for the ActionScript community to get in line. Well, it didn’t take long.
For those who came in late, Dr Ariel Shamir and Dr Shai Avidan have developed a process that enables you to resize images without losing key visual information. Since then, I’ve seen three or four attempts to achieve the effect in ActionScript and all have been quite impressive.
First check out the YouTube demo and then see where we’re up to in terms of an ActionScript implementation.
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August 22, 2007 at 10:16 am· Filed under Flash, Play, ActionScripters
Just saw this over at the Papervision blog… Manuel Bua’s Magic Carpet.
Combining the likes of Papervision and APE, Manuel’s demonstration will go a long way to convincing you to super-charge your next project with some next-gen Flash. The attention to detail in the experiment is very impressive.
APE (an open source 2D physics engine) also requires some footloosemoose attention - I’m hoping get some time and check it out this weekend.
Click through for the Magic Carpet YouTube demo and further links…
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July 17, 2007 at 9:55 am· Filed under Play, Novel Ideas, ActionScripters
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:
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