1. TerrainMorph via dynamic drawn elevation map with Papervision3D
(News/Labs)

Inspired by a fantastic article from Bartek Drozdz about manipulating vertices with an elevation map. The example is able to load external maps or start with a blank and users can dra

2. LiveComponentInspector using describeType()
(Archived/News/Labs)

I already wrote an article about the AS3 describeType-method. This time I build an example which uses describeType() to extract accessors from a GUI element (in this case but theoretic

3. Morph3D - simple 3D shape morphing
(Archived/News/Labs)

I just played around with the geometry of 3D objects in Papervision3D and built a simple example on how to easily modify the vertices of them. It is able to morph between 2 3D objects

4. FlexWiimote3D - Take control!
(Archived/News/Labs)

As already promised I took some time to build a sample code for controlling 3D objects via a Wiimote controller using the VirtualMouse class. For sure it is one of the core functionalities of our 3

5. Flex Windows - 3D windows as seen on VaryWell
(Archived/News/Labs)

Many of you have seen the nice effect of moving windows around with a smooth 3D rotation on VaryWell. I just cloned this and extended it to use it once again with the TitleWindow component of Adobe

6. Flex Cube - 3D OSX look
(Archived/News/Labs)

Flex Aero as a Vista Aero clone... ok. Now it's "Mac"-time! This example copies the very nice 3D cube flip from dialogs on Mac OS X. The example includes 3 sample windows but

7. Flex Aero - 3D Vista look
(Archived/News/Labs)

Here's a little example how easy it is to combine classical GUI elements like the TitleWindow component and Papervision3D to get eye-candy effect. The effect is very similar to the Micros

8. Flash/Flex + Wiimote = Virtual Mouse
(Archived/News/Labs)

As we already implemented these functionality in our project I decided to build a sample Flex project and share it. Wiimote in combination with the WiiFlash project let's you easily commu

9. Collaborative file sharing with Adobe SHARE
(Archived/News/Projects)

We got plans on Adobe SHARE in combination with the project G-Nero for a seamless way to work on different file types (3D models, textures, ...) and the ability for the users to share th

10. Detecting Flash Player capabilities using describeType()
(Archived/News/Labs)

I'm working on a solid bug reporting functionality for G-Nero and stumbled over the AS3 package flash.system.Capabilities and tried the "good old way" (AS2 alike) and got no result at al

11. Flex Builder 3 beta 3 with Ecplipse 3.3+ (Europe)
(Archived/News/General)

It's been a week since Adobe Flex Builder 3 beta 3 was released and I just tried to get my copy working. It just took about 20 (very frustrating) times and I'm just most annoyed about it than with

12. Keynote meets Papervision3D - Part 2
(Archived/News/Labs)

OK... I just can't keep my hands off this. The first article yesterday showed 2 ported effects from Apple's Keynote to Flash. Because it was that easy I decided to build 2 more effects so here they

13. Keynote meets Papervision3D
(Archived/News/Labs)

Since a few weeks I got my own first iMac. This week Apple iWork 08 was released and I really love the transition effects of Keynote (especially the new ones). Today I played a few hours on getting

14. Advanced camera on PV3D
(Archived/News/Labs)

Today I played a 3D racing game... never mind? Ok, the reason why I write this was especially the "replay" after the race. Everybody who ever played 3D racing games know this and remembers

15. 3D spectrum
(Archived/News/Labs)

I decided to combine my first steps on Papervision3D with my latest experiments. The result is a 3D visualization of the sound spectrum. At first my idea was to use a fixed texture (material) but it

16. Fplod - Flash car radio
(Archived/News/Labs)

I'm still playing around with the ComputeSpectrum()-method and while I experiment on a beat detection algorithm I had the idea for the visualization of sound with a car radio. In my last car I had

17. Spectrum Orchestrator
(Archived/News/Labs)

The ComputeSpectrum-method of ActionScript 3.0 offers only a collection of boring "Floats"... but put them together with Bitmap methods, filters and drawing operations you will get an amaz

18. fRadio: native Flash-based internet radio
(Archived/News/Labs)

Yesterday I spent some time on Nullsoft's SHOUTcast. It's absolutely fantastic so I take a look at the specifications... WOW! Accessible data via XML? Perfectly for a Flash-based client. I j

19. External image transitions - Part 3
(Archived/News/Labs)

Ok, ok... this should never get so far but let's get it on! We just released the first article to solve the problem with tiles-component and the ability of loading external images into it. In th

20. External image transitions - Part 2
(Archived/News/Labs)

We received emails with requests to extend the existing files. Some of them wanted a slideshow functionality and progressbar to indicate the loading status. Now I decided to release a second version

21. Webcam color picker
(Archived/News/Labs)

We know a lot of color picking methods with sliders, cubes, hexagons, pipette and all the others. This time I thought about getting the color from a webcam. This would be great for users for example

22. Print area selection
(Archived/News/Labs)

Printing in combination with flash is not very comfortable. The PrintJob-class only allows to print a specific target instance. This example shows a customizable selection feature which allows users

23. External image transitions
(Archived/News/Labs)

We already provided a small sample how to extend the fantastic transitions component from Satori Canton. We get several request to provide a sample for loading external images in combination with th

24. Defined CallBack
(Archived/News/Labs)

The LocalConnection-class allows multiple Flash-instances to communicate among each other. The typical way is to create a receiving instance and a sending instance both communicating via a channel d

25. Window blur
(Archived/News/Labs)

Making windows transparent is very easy indeed... but what about creating a blurred and transparent look for the window component like Vista does. 

26. Reflectioner
(Archived/News/Labs)

Many of you may remember the good old JavaScript-based effect. It was years ago... at this time i was really fascinated from the illusion of an cursor reflection on a webpage. The rest of the site w

27. Realtime magnifier
(Archived/News/Labs)

Another BitmapData-class example. How about making a global magnifier for flash movies. Use it for flash applications like an image editor or just as reading glasses. 

28. Root transitioner
(Archived/News/Labs)

With version 8 of Flash a new concept was born with the graphic-filters. In 2005 Satori Canton has written an amazing component called "Tile Transitions". Many people asked for loadin

29. Lazy flash
(Archived/News/Labs)

Today i experimented with some draw-modes of the BitmapData-class. There are already some motion detection codes which use the "difference"-mode for separating the deviant areas of the new