As I'm under the Nanika influence daily, I was this weekend wondering if I could reproduce one of their old effects with AS3, I don't know if AS2 would be fast enough for it, but at least AS3 does the trick very well :D

http://mrdoob.com/lab/webcam/nanika/01/

As soon as I had the effect I tested a bit more and did some other variations:

http://mrdoob.com/lab/webcam/nanika/02/
http://mrdoob.com/lab/webcam/nanika/03/
http://mrdoob.com/lab/webcam/nanika/04/

So, for those with a webcam, here you have a new toy to play with for a while.

Also, if you want to check the source code out, here you have:

http://mrdoob.com/lab/webcam/nanika/ nanika_effect01.fla

Enjoy!

PS: I'm still moving my stuff to the new hosting, mrdoob.com index page should be up soon. Apologies for having everything a bit messed up now...

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Long time without doing any experiment with PV3D, right? Here we're back again... New experiment! with 4 variations.

*A webcam is needed this time*

http://mrdoob.com/lab/pv3d/webcam/t1
http://mrdoob.com/lab/pv3d/webcam/t2
http://mrdoob.com/lab/pv3d/webcam/t3
http://mrdoob.com/lab/pv3d/webcam/t4

if you only see black and you have a webcam, right click anywhere in the flash, go to settings > webcam and make sure you are using there the correct one.

For the ones that doesn't have a webcam, here are some pics of what is all about (although a video would be better).







Thanks to Andreas Müller for the inspiration and to David Singleton for testing it.

Enjoy!

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I really needed an 'app' or something to preview my files without having to compile all the time, and while I was using it I though someone else would find it interesting

A couple of people have done it before (john!), but I needed to do a custom one with specific working way...



http://mrdoob.com/tools/pv3d_previewer/

So, if you need a previewer, feel free to use it :)

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Not so long ago (5 months) I still was doing the easeOut animations by hand.. you know, the usual formula:

myObject._x += (finalX - myObject._x) / 20;

One day, a guy in a chat told me about those Classes for doing all this. Then I discovered MCTween, and it was all great, but for some reason, I think because it's based on prototypes, I ended up using MosesSupposes Fuse Kit classes which are less intrusive.

Then I started to worry about the filesize of my files when using MosesSupposes' one. The filesize doesn't get to big, but I'm THAT picky :) Also, the classes hasn't been ported to ActionScript 3, so I started to hate them a bit.

And finally this weekend I found out that Zé Fernando was working on a reversion of his classes and he already did an AS3 version of them.

If you need a tween class, don't look any other, you only need Tweener! :D

Thanks Zé!

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http://awards.fitc.ca/main/finalists/

The award is in fact for papervision3D, but I was shocked when I was browsing the list and found that they used a screenshot of one of my effects to illustrate papervision3D. Wicked! :)

You guys! Give me the money!!! ;)

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Right, as some people asked what was in it, and there is almost no time to spoil the surprise to anyone else. Here it's the answer for you:

Inside the coloured box there was an invitation to a secret London place tomorrow. I would think it's for the release of the CS3 products.

The box itself its like on the video, although its not glowing of course. The box was split so you could open it and you would find a CD and if you opened to the other side you would find the invitation. It took me a while to see that you were able to open the in two ways :P.

Seems that the guys at good technology were behind the campaign, not sure how much they did of it tho. By the way, :gt is recruiting and looks like they have a lot of positions available and I know they are recruiting wisely (go Julian go! o/).

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Rtxcite is a quite good creative from Spain. He is one of those that does a bit of everything and you wonder where does he get the time to do all... It also has his own style which is something hard to get.

Some weeks ago he released a site or Sacha Sacket that I though was, again, really nice, but the code was maybe a bit slow. So as I had him on MSN I offered him to partner on this field, so he would design the site and I would code/make it move. He was totally up for the idea as coding wasn't really something he wanted to keep doing forever. So here we are, doing a couple of projects together that need to be released soon ;)

The first one was a semi-fast-one for a newschool decoration company. My part on it was optimising the whole site a bit code speed wise and loading times. Now the loading bar isn't really needed :)

Also it's the first site to have implemented my Phodoob on it for the gallery. Hope you like it! :)

Visit bombardearte's site

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I was developing another little game, and I've been fighting with it for a couple of days, and after trying to locate the problem, seems like in the end it is just a limitation of the myXML.load() function.

A bit of detail about it:

I'm trying to send the scores to my .php at the same time I'm getting the updated list of scores in a XML format, something like:

myXML.load( "scores.php?action=submit_score &name=mr.doob &score=1000 &code=893493" );

So, the php will update the highscores table, and then It will give back the updated table in a XML format. However seems like this doesn't work. For some reason Flash doesn't ever do the call. I've debugged a lot this and this is what I've found:

myXML.load( "scores.php?action=submit_score" );
Works properly, Flash does the call, and it gets the XML back.

myXML.load( "scores.php?action=submit_score &name=mr.doob" );
Works properly, Flash does the call, and it gets the XML back.

myXML.load( "scores.php?action=submit_score &name=mr.doob &score=1000" );
Doesn't work!!

Seems like if you send more than 2 GET variables then flash won't do the call, and I know that it won't do the call because I've a logger on my php code that is saving all the calls that is getting on a .txt file.

Does anyone know if there is any workaround? I'll use a loadvars to send the scores and then get the XML again with a simple call.

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Yey!! Mr.doob is one of the top UK creatives!! haha! ;)

Which means that "the box" is on my way. Right, I better start speaking well from Adobe now ;) I'm still shocked tho :O!! and I wonder even more about what is in the box.

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I just don't see the point. Is this another browser? Is this going to be like Internet explorer and its customizable scrollbars feature? If this is something else... then what happens with Macromedia Central?

Sorry, but I'm confused, by now I don't see why should I even take the time to download it. I believe there are too many Adobe fans out there ;)

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