myflashportal

Some kind of toy made of Papervision again, but this time around, I’m just sharing due to it’s creative use of the medium instead of it offering any source, probably it will inspire you in some ‘portal-game-like’ kind of interface.

via Den Inavov Blog

Sharp
It would be tough sometimes if we are to combine technology and art, but that would be the greatest joy to gain from achieving it. This site portrays something the usual electrical store site wouldn’t do, to make the item or product itself an art. Quite conceptual at first, but as you go through the entire site, it  seems to unveil more and making more sense to you. And from my observation, it’s built upon AS3, why you say? Because it threw an explicit error window to me when there’s some URL not found inside.

Virgin Eye
I would say this might not be groundbreaking for tech enthusiast that has seen millions of data visualisation at least, from Digg. Which you take existing data and beautify it in a way to human, it makes more sense to them. But in this case, instead of using data generated from user, Virgin Eye took a different approach in using it’s existing data from all it’s business and delivered in a ’sonar’ like look. Just how the Airspace terminals operates.

Rock Your Lock – JC Penny
While having your conversation with your friend through the webcam can be satisfying and enjoying, you may never know how much mor fun it can bring you when you can turn yourself into some superstar through some Flash sites that can make your webcam more ‘usable’ and ‘fun’. Realtime webcam image manipulation. This site includes not only one but most of the effects that we flashers has seen all these while in manipulating bitmap datas. Of course this might not be new to those who is fortunate enough to own a Mac that has iChat/Photo Booth installed by default which also features some of the effect. But this is definitely some commercial/technology breakthrough for the agency/studio that pulled this off. Strong and smooth backend definitely.

Create a 3D environment with Flash Player 10 API

Following back the post from our friends here, I had stumbled across this cool feature that gotoAndLearn by Lee Brimelow covered on the features that Flash Player 10 provides. This includes with only few lines and no additional plugins, you will able to build a 3D environment! Cool eh! That requires almost 0 knowledge of Papervision. Of course before getting started, you will need to have the Flash Player 10 Beta plugin installed to see the effect. Well, here comes the question, will this replace the overly poweful API by those 3D engine such as Papervision or Sandy3D? The answer is No. Because the flash 3D API/SDK still remains as a basic development tool for those who is looking to quickly chunk out a fast method for their client, but if they’re looking for a more hardcore implementation, the open source APIs is the way to go.