Archive | December, 2007

Free Utility Class: ImageSlicer

I have been looking for a way to easily get bitmaps of segments of images for a while now but never really found anything. I needed this for example in my last Papervision3d example where I wanted to slice an image and use the slices individually as textures on different surfaces. Since I happened to [...]

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Seamless panoramas powered by Papervision3D and Flickr

Continuing with my experiments with Papervision3D, today I was looking more into creating the Qucktime VR like panoramas. There are quite a number of well done panoramas but all of them require custom cropped images etc. What I really wanted to do was to just have them be generated off images in my Flickr account. [...]

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Adobe open-sources Remoting and Data Services !!

I am so excited, I better post this before I pass out . Christophe Coenraets just announced on his blog that Adobe just open sourced the Flash/Flex Remoting and Messaging services under the name BlazeDS. What does this mean? Well remember all those multi-user real-time applications that Adobe demoed selling their Flex Data Services? Well [...]

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CardStack: This aint no Coverflow

I finally got around to playing a bit with Papervision3D, the open source 3D library for Flash,today. I have to say its been a lot of fun and its surprisingly easy to use. I was looking for some interface that I could build using what I was learning. The ITunes Coverflow seemed a good place [...]

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Adobe.com: Left anchored design is fashionable again?

By now pretty much everyone into adobe technologies knows the adobe.com site design changed today. Most of the blogs I have read have said it looks great and I do like the look for the most part. What I dont get is why the site is anchored to the left. There used to be a [...]

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Coming to a Flex App near you: 100,000 Videos

The Fan, Comcast Interactive Media’s Flex based video application, is soon about to reach a pretty big milestone: 100,000 video clips in the library. And while sites like YouTube may boast a much bigger library, the content on The Fan is all premium content from cable TV networks. So just for kicks, I took a [...]

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