Archive for December, 2007

Happy New Year!

Monday, December 31st, 2007

2007 was crazy in many ways, ranging from a great poverty of spirit, wallet and mores to an over-abundance of creativity, learning, and future promise. It's been very special to me for many reasons, but I'll list a few people/things in no particular order: -Joe t. -Craig s. -Maran w. -Family - the return of ...

Open and Close a box in Papervision3D 2.0

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Here is a quick example of contructing a cube using Planes instead of the Cube primitive in Papervision3D. Click the picture to view the opening and shutting cube. -Once the cube is open, click the bottom of the inside in order to close it again. This technique makes it possible to ...

season’s greetings from modern carpentry

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Click on a picture and enjoy! check out the snow

Internal: Combining Drupal, AMFPHP, SWFAddress and Flash

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

I have recently been working on creating flash websites that are running off of a Drupal CMS. This approach to bringing content into flash is pretty slick for a couple of reasons: it provides the maintainer of a website a user friendly way to put content into their website with ...

color, light, shape, and papervision

Sunday, December 16th, 2007



Loading Collada files (.dae) into Papervision3d 2.0 GreatWhite

Friday, December 7th, 2007

For anyone interested in learning how to load .dae (collada) files into Papervision3D 2.0, this is your lucky day! A collada file is an open source version of your regular 3d file, whether it be created in 3dStudio Max, Maya, Blender, SketchUp, etc. It is essentially an XML file that ...

Trapped inside a GreatWhite streaming video cube

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I've been playing around with a lot of video stuff way back since Phunky (man, those were the days, weren't they?) Anyways, thought I'd post a cool example of how to do streaming video, on six sides of a cube, in Great White. If you've never set up an .flv ...

Papervision3d 2.0 Materials Examples

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

With the release of Papervision3d 2.0 yesterday, I think a lot of people have been busy trying to wrap their minds around the new system.  John Grden posted a small example for reference on the mailing list, and also created a quick screen cast demonstrating how to use the new ...

Papervision3d 2.0 Public Alpha Released!!!!

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Yay, download the source from the svn repository at google code! That's about all I've got to say.... Yay!! As you'll notice, it is named "GreatWhite", which is (I think) a nice little reference to the shark that originally graced the Papervision3d site, demonstrating its awesomeness. Ralph Hauwert, also known as ...

Presentation for Short Circuits: Making 3D Panoramas with Flash

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

So I got into web-design a couple of years back after watching the seminal video EPIC 2015, by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson (who maintain the blog Snarkmarket). These journalists have been big players in the citizen journalism movement This video imagines the world of media in 2015, and looks ...