22.01.2008 by Zoltan

PV3D 2.0 Alpha

You may not like magenta quite as much as Mr Doob (or even T-Mobile’s legal department for that matter), but you should definitely check out his experiments with the new-ish PV3D 2.0 alpha which supports run time lighting effects / shading.

Because if you remember anything about motion graphics circa 2001, your interweb is about to be infested. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Let’s just hope that the de rigeur feedback-infused soundtrack doesn’t come bundled with the effect this time around ;)

28.09.2007 by Zoltan

TiltViewer

You like Flickr, right? I mean who doesn’t? And you also like 3D? Holy fuck you’re going to love TiltViewer. Nothing you haven’t seen before, but doesn’t everything just look better in 3D?!?!?!

via swifty

19.06.2007 by Zoltan

NikeSB + SWFForceSize

NikeSB updates today with a fresh design from odopod. However its not really the design that grabbed me, but more the very clever use of dynamically scaling the height of the flash movie, without having to refresh the HTML… the result is that the browser’s scrollbar functions as usual (when required, when not it simply disappears), but the entire height of the window is a flash movie.

This is not something I’ve seen too much of before, so I’ve asked around here at de-construct and funnily enough, they’re using some of my mate Gabes’ open source .js :) anyway what happens is this (courtesy of Matt): “looks like an event from the flash is being called on each new ‘page’ in the flash, which in turns calls a resize of the swf embed:”

function updateSwfSize(w,h){
var forcesize = new SWFForceSize( so,w,h );
}

make sense? good! :-P

15.06.2007 by Zoltan

Personal Jesus

This is an image from my latest personal project, entitled “Personal Jesus”. The idea is pretty simple - take an image of jesus and replace all the pixels with some vice - money, cocaine, beer, cigarettes etc etc. There’ll be a microsite soon enough, and eventually I’m hoping to make a series of large-scale (A0) prints and hopefully get a ltitle exhibition going.

The only other thing to say is that its my first foray into generative art / using code to make the image. In this case it takes the average RGB value from each pixel and then puts a clip down whose scale is dependent on that value.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated…

09.05.2007 by Zoltan

Real-time 3D Flash

Carlos Lluoa, the originator of the über cool real-time 3D Flash engine Papervision, has got a new example up on his site. Its a 3D car that moves in and out of perspective, and it runs fucking fast even on the mac… Respect.

18.10.2006 by Zoltan

BigSpaceship goes opensource

NYC-based digital agency BigSpaceship has released the code for what looks to be a pretty damn impressive Flash dev tool - in fact the very same one they developed for their recent nikeair work… Being barley proficient in AS, this will mean more to others than myself, but is definitely worth keeping an eye on.

via their development blog