MyLineRider

Expanding on my last example, Flex 3 Experiment: Drawing a path at run time with insert points, here is the same example, but in this version it is possible to delete anchor points by clicking on a black point and then hitiing the DELETE key.

Although in this example and in the previous two, the title suggests is a Flex example, all the path functionality is in a AS file, so it can be run as an Actionscript project as well. It requires Flex 3.2+, Flash CS4 or other IDE that can compile for Flash Player 10.

In this case I called this a Flex example and not an experiment, because these are not really experiments ( i am not trying to do anything new really – at least not yet).

The code is available here.

A few weeks ago I saw a post on the PaperVision3D list about augmented reality using a 3D instantiated using PaperVision3D. I didn’t know what to expect, but I follow the link to check it out. The post at Sander Wichers blog, shows a nice combination of a 3D cube (made with PV3D) that can be manipulated in the real world. Sander uses a Mammoth media server (in alpha) and an augmented reality library named ARToolKitPlus as a server plug-in.

A couple of days later a saw another experiment using also PV3D and FLARToolkit a Flash implementation of ARToolkit (is in Japanese) made by Sagoosha. 

Papervision – Augmented Reality (extended) from dpinteractive on Vimeo.

I found some other interesting work on augmented reality by a French company called Total Inmmersion, that specialized on this (commercially). They have presented at the DEMO conference in 2004 and 2007. The following video is from their 2007 presentation

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You can access the DEMO 2004 presentation at: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6523761027552517909

A few days ago, via the Papervision3D blog (again), I found that Sagoosha published even a cooler demo to wish all of us a Happy New Year.

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And you can even interact with this one by going here. Enjoy!!

Well, finally after exploring lots of themes, plugins and widgets I am officially starting this blog .

I registered the domain name many months ago, I started playing with some themes, but I was never satisfied. A few days ago Keith Peters from bit-101.com changed his theme (check his post about it here ) and I said to myself – “wow, that is the kind of theme I am looking for”.

Keith, sorry for using the same theme:) I hope, once I finish customizing it, it will look completely different.

I still need to find the right plugins and widgets that I want to have in this blog. But, I decided to launch it already and work on the improvements along the way.