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Useful stuff: Papervision GUI, AS3 Code Snippet, UML editor, Firefox Plugin

Iestyn — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:46:41 +0000

Here’s a few useful things I’ve seen recently. Thought I’d share..

VizualPV3D

A GUI for Papervision! It looks rather similar to Lightwave, although orders of magnitude less powerful. I’ll be interested to see how this evolves. Could come in handy one day!
http://www.juxtinteractive.com/work/vizualpv3d/

Swf Class Explorer

This was a useful utility on a recent project, as there’s no “ApplicationDomain.getAllDefinitions():Array”. Worth bookmarking.
http://flassari.is/2008/07/swf-class-explorer-for-as3/

Violet UML Editor

Jon from Unwrong showed me this rather nifty UML editor. Great for drawing quick, simple diagrams. Cross-platform, and free.
http://alexdp.free.fr/violetumleditor/page.php

Talon: Firefox Plugin

A great plugin for Firefox, which allows you to right-click and capture a page (or region). From there you can upload/share/edit on Aviary, copy to clipboard, or save to desktop.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/aviarys_talon_a_drool-worthy_firefox_plug-in_for_e.php

Generative art application – project screenshots

Iestyn — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:54:27 +0000

Since being inspired by Matt’s generative art session at Flashbrighton a while back, I’ve been occasionally working on a personal project. It’s a Flex application where you can generate interesting abstract images and animations. It’s tricky to describe exactly what it is and what it does, so you can see for yourselves when I release it.

It was initially a simple idea of mine to see what something looked like when manipulated in a certain way. After playing around with it for a while and adding more functionality, I began finding myself entranced by the things I/it was accidentally creating. When I’ve added a bit more functionality I’ll release it and see if anyone else finds it as intriguing as I do

If you’re interested in helping me alpha-test this, then let me know.

[Edit: By the way, it's using Papervision]

Here’s some screenshots:

Red

Lines

Rainbow

Distribution

Browns

Papervision experiment #3: 3D colour cube v2

Iestyn — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:33:50 +0000

A combination of the last two posts, with a few extra tweaks. This time it produces quite a pleasing blur if you click and hold down.

Papervision experiment #2: 3D colour cube

Iestyn — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:28:37 +0000

Here’s another experiment along the same lines as the last one, with the same mouse controls.

This time it’s 15,625 Pixel3D points, and the position in the cube defines the colour.

I really like the moirre effect.

Papervision Experiment #1: Fire sphere

Iestyn — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:41:51 +0000

Recently I’ve been inspired to create some experimental things in Papervision. I think that it’s mainly down to Matt’s talk on generative art at FlashBrighton a few weeks back.

Well, here’s the first. in brief:

- Plot 9902 Pixel3D points evenly around the surface of a sphere
- Colour each one a random red
- Rotate the sphere depending on where the mouse is
- Apply a blur effect to a BitmapEffectLayer
- Change the clippingPoint

I kinda liked the effect, so here we go. Hold the mouse down to push the sphere away.

Flash + Papervision 3D + Arduino

Iestyn — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:02:17 +0000

In my second little project today, I modified the circuit I built for the Flash etch-a-sketch, by adding another potentiometer and 3 LEDs, each of which represents the voltage of each pot (using pulse-width modulation to ‘dim’ the LED).

Each pot is responsible for either the pitch, yaw, or roll of a cube in PV3D.

Simple stuff that’s been done before! I think I need to think of something a bit more interesting now