William Gibson’s Neuromancer was a highly imaginative and insightful exploration of the possibilities implicit in the technology. One of the few elements that did not correspond to reality was the idea of the “walled city” – an enclosed area, a playground for freethinkers shut off from the rest of the net. As it’s turned out, [...]
For some reason, FlatShadeMaterial in Great White doesn’t work quite how I expect it to.
Look at this example (view source is enabled) … the light only reflects on one side. Strange, huh?
However, one good thing I discovered while making the example to show others, is that the dark colour (the “ambient” argument passed to [...]
No, it’s not yet another 3D library for Flash. I’m thinking about the ramificiations of a decision I have been, very reluctantly, forced into: use of multiple (well, two) 3D libraries for a single website.
Papervision3D has (almost) all the features I want: lighting and shading, a sophisticated API (at least in Great White, the [...]
I am currently working on a fairly large-scale 3D website. I’m trying to achieve a technically impressive and visually pleasing 3D experience, while at the same time making sure the site is actually usable.
I’ve been doing a little reading on the web to see what I can find on the topic of 3D usability. I [...]
Let me tell you a scenario, and see if it sounds familiar. I know I’ve seen it in many manifestations over the years.
You start work at a new company. You meet the other developers who have been there for a while. They are intelligent, competent people who are up to date with the latest technology; [...]
Yesterday a colleague from downstairs (where .NET folks huddle in the dungeon-like darkness and pretend to enjoy using Visual Studio … unlike on my floor where designers and Flash devs flit about in a world of sunshine and butterflies) asked me to make a very simple little SWF … just a marquee basically, similar to [...]
I’ve been digging into Tamarin and it looks fascinating. You can compile ActionScript and then run it from the command line.
The idea of being able to use AS3 (or ES4) on the command line is very promising for projects like the one I proposed earlier for XSD-based XML AS3 bindings. And I am tinkering with [...]
After some teething troubles with my Wordpress RSS feed, and thanks to some patient help from Daniel Taborga from Adobe and the excellent Feedburner service, my posts are being aggregated once more on MXNA / Adobe Feeds.
Since the posts in the meantime were not added, here’s a quick little catchup of what I’ve been doing [...]
In an AIR app, once you have opened an SQLConnection, is there any way of knowing what kind of connection this is?
By which I mean, whether open() or openAsync() were used, and which of the SQLMode constants were used as the second argument to whichever argument was used?
If not … why not?? I [...]
I just scanned through The Algorithmist’s list of examples and tutorials on Papervision3D. Very useful. I thought I would post a couple of links that I’ve found that have been helpful in my 3D journey (which I am still on, I emphasise!).
First of all, the API docs that the wiki links to are out [...]
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