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The Archives
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03.18.08Cast3D Open Source 3D Animation Import for Flash 3DCast3D offers a relatively painless (and open source) way to import 3D models and animations from 3DS into Flash. More specifically, Cast3D: "...is a 3D animation framework library for Adobe Flash in ActionScript3. The foundation is a multi key-framed geometrical animation. Cast3D supports geometry and texture morphing, skin animation, 3D sound, animated movie and video. A number of animation interpolation splines is implemented to provide smooth and natural motion, like Bezier, TCB, Hemite(cubic), Cosine and Linear."
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03.06.08Papervision World/Information MapOne more Papervision sample for the day, so I don't lose it, a mash-up of Yahoo news and a 3D world: As quoted from the developer: The NewsGlobe consists of three basic pieces: a Yahoo! News Top Stories RSS feed, a geo-encoding web service from Yahoo! Maps, and a free, open-source library of 3D classes for ActionScript 3 called Papervision3D. The application loads the Y! News RSS feed every few minutes and extracts the dateline for each story. It sends this descriptive textual information off to the Yahoo! Maps service to find a matching location, and return latitude and longitude coordinates for ...
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03.06.08Papervision Samples IIIAs you can tell, I'm in love with Papervision, which beautifully renders 3D environments using a Flash plug-in. Early uses of Papervision with multiple "users" hint at mini virtual environments embedded in Web sites sometime soon. For now, more eye candy, the first from the good people at Blitz who are real pioneers with Papervision: Source Continue Reading...
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02.12.08Papervision Flickr IntegrationBeautiful piece of work that pulls images from Flickr into a 3D rotatable space. If only it would allow selection of which Flickr stream! Which reminded me of this Firefox plug-in for viewing images across a variety of sites:
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02.08.08Papervision II: And one moreAnother Papervision example since I seem to be on the hunt for them. I'm really in love with this, partly for look and feel and partly because the code is open source.
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02.08.08Papervision SampleBeautiful piece of work using Papervision, the open source 3D engine using Flash. Then comes the first use of Papervision in a multi-player environment: We're a little ways off Flash being a player for virtual worlds like Second Life, but using a client that most users don't need to download is increasingly appealing.
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01.14.08Papervision TutorialsTwo further resources...and again, I know Papervision isn't really part of the Metaverse but combined with other work from Macromedia, it will eventually converge (plus, I just think it's really cool). First tutorial is in Portugese and provides a nice intro with a follow-up more advanced discussion. A tutorial "from the ground up" includes screen shots and does a great job of describing the integration to 3DS etc.
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01.05.08Papervision TutorialI realize PaperVision is slightly off the subject for discussions of the metaverse, unable at this time to support multiple AVs, but being able to create 3D environments on the Flash engine adds a lot to the Metaverse toolkit. I'm big on the belief that it's important not to get too tied to the language of virtual or synthetic worlds, because 3D content will be a parallel, mirror, or immersive adjunct and layer beside, between, on top of and beneath the Internet (and beyond). The evolving Metaverse will include overlays of virtual informaiton on the real world (HUDs in "RL" cars ...
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12.18.07PaperVision Public Beta Show ReelI'm in love with Papervision, partly because I'm in love with Flash, and love the fact that Papervision: a) Allows users to interact with 3D content using the Flash player. No client downloads. No clutzy clients. b) It's open source. The community of developers and coders have already made great strides in retooling and improving Papervision, including well-rendered virtual environments and rudimentary first-person avatar movement. c) You can do cool, hot, controlled things with it. We all know what a talented designer can do with Flash - now turn that into real-time rendered 3D objects and you get the idea. And if pictures are ...
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12.05.07Gorgeous Combination of Images, Sound and Interaction: PapervisionThe Eye Project is astonishing. Have a look. Based on user-posted photos, beautiful blippy loops of music, a feast for the eyes.
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