I’ve seen some pretty cool 3D augmented reality in the past year so since I had some time I thought I’d adapt some code to display a 3D example that I recently created.
I used an basic example I found online, altered the code to my needs and used the explode image sample that I posted the other day. This example took half a day creating the pattern, that your web cam will pick up, and writing the rest of the code using FLARToolkit. This is the start of cooler things that I have planned for using augmented reality to support other website marketing efforts.
You can see the demo here.*
*There are instructions on the following page that include printing an image.
Augmented reality 3D sample
A couple of new Papervision3D experiments
We’ve all seen the craziness that is Papervision3D, right? If you have never heard of such a thing then let me bring you up to speed. There is a surge in the Flash design/development community to build more engaging Flash experiences these days. Two popular Flash Actionscript code bases for developing 3D in Flash are Away3D and Papervision3D. I prefer to use Papervision3D at the moment and am really enjoying digging into the code to see what I can come up with. This process is usually the way I get into something interactive, I play with it, build stuff and then save the projects in hopes of applying what I learned to a future project.
I posted a couple of new experiments on my site recently that you can check out at the following links. I’ll probably wind up posting more samples in the WORK section of this site as I complete them so check back for that.
Demo: Image grid with mouse interaction.
Demo: Image interaction while exploding the image.*.
* This sample is a take on my original experiment: http://blog.thespikeranch.com/as3-bitmap-manipulation/
Flash extension is approved by Adobe
Feel a small sense of accomplishment this morning, my Flash extension was approved by Adobe. You can download the MXP here: http://tinyurl.com/y87lcdr
This panel includes various buttons to quickly setup a new Flash movie as an ad banner at the click of a button. Sizes are based on the www.iab.net standards list. More info on the iab can be found at http://www.iab.net. The banner is setup to accept clickTAG or clickTag code commonly used on ad servers. It was a cool project to learn some of the JSFL code. Hope it helps some people.
Flash Build Banner Ad panel is done.
I finally took time to knock out the final details of my Flash IDE panel extension which allows you a jump off point to building IAB.net compliant banner ads. I started working on this while I was working at Comcast Interactive Media, we were building so many banners that I wanted to give myself a shortcut to getting started with the banner building process.
The panel gets installed in the Flash CS3 or CS4 IDE and offers a number of common and uncommon banner ad sizes. Continue reading ‘Flash Build Banner Ad panel is done.’
Basic image gallery
After going through my code base and samples I realized that I never had a basic image gallery so now that I have the time I threw this together using MVC structure. For those that don’t know, MVC stands for Model View Controller which is used to create more flexible applications. Using MVC will allow me to use this code for other projects without any alteration. I can extend the Model, View or Controller classes to suit my needs.
This sample loads an XML file which contains all of the paths to the images and their captions, I can have one or many images and the application will adapt to the amount. The application loads an image then takes a snapshot (using the BitmapData class) of the image which is used to perform the fading transition effect.
You can see a demo of it here.
Launched another website.
Well, (my now former) employer launched their new website today. Masterminds Advertising was built on the WordPress system to allow for easy updates and SEO compatibility. It was my first real foray into building a custom template for WordPress so I was excited for the challenge. Along with all of the custom CSS and PHP work for each page I created some Flash image headers to load an XML file and transition between images. Check it out when you get a chance.
Edit: My work on this ended in October 2009 and there have been changes/additions to the site since.
Updating the blog
So now that I have a little extra free time in my day I decided to update my blog design. It will be an evolving site as I continue to work on other projects and jump back to this when I get time.
Interview with John Swarr and Mark Eaton about their new movie, Stompin’ Stu
Nice article on ESPN about my friends new movie, Stompin’ Stu http://tinyurl.com/m9gsdn Continue reading ‘Interview with John Swarr and Mark Eaton about their new movie, Stompin’ Stu’
