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The Archives
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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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02.03.083D Models from Still PhotosStanford University has developed a program that has a 65% success rate in translating 2D photos into 3D models. Taken a step or two further, you can imagine taking a photo, converting to a 3D mesh, and easily uploading to Google earth, into a modeling program for tweaking, and importing into virtual worlds. The real comes to the virtual just as the virtual is starting to arrive in the real.
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01.31.08Scenecaster’s 2.5% Daily Growth – The Quiet AppScenecaster deserves a second look - with all the talk of virtual worlds, Metaplace, Second Life, OpenSim, Kaneva and There.com, GigaOM reports that Scenecaster is reporting growth at 2.5% a day. I previously covered Scenecaster and included this assessment: What’s interesting (about Scenecaster) is that the object, in this case a stool, is tagged to search results from Google, eBay and Amazon. This is one of the things that’s attracting academia to initiatives like Croquet - the ability to link virtual spaces into shared reference pools. They may not want to link objects out to eBay, but they MAY want to link ...
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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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01.01.083D London in Second Life – Google Virtual Should Be Here Already, and why SL Should Act Like a Gaming PlatformA fascinating and noteworthy bit of work by Dr. Andrew Hudson-Smith, from UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, who rezzed a 3D model of London across a scrolling map. It looks like the map may have been using the AC3D translator which takes 3D object files and converts them into triangles - prim heavy but it works. Thanks to Francis Anderson for pointing this project out. According to the blog entry's update, however, the powers that be in London had the map removed from SL - security reasons? IP ownerships issues? Early user-hacked prototype of Google Earth: Interoperability If this project had been accomplished ...
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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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12.04.07Papervision 3D Environments: Avatars Coming SoonThe nice thing about Papervision is there's no client (runs off Flash), can be embedded in a Web page, and is open source! A few samples of 3D environments: Paradox 3D House building tool Very nice, encouraging work showing how 'thin' our clients can become.
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11.13.07Reflective Architecture: Papervision SampleFascinated by reflective architecture, I ran across the following which acts in a very similar way to the objects developed by Keystone Bouchard as I discussed here. DO check this out and move your mouse around - and check out the download and render times. Not a 3D world but shows where 3D could be. The demo is built in Papervision.
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