It is still work in progress, but I couldn’t keep this for myself. Based on perlin noise using the brightness of pixels (again) to push up each line of the wave, drawing the layers from back to front and giving them a different color. When you move the mouse left, right, up and down you will influence the perlin noise bitmap, which affects the waves. Try it out here.
I had the idea for a while to do something with points and lines in 3D space, so yesterday after reading the post of bit-101, I finally started to do some testing. After creating a 3D sphere with lines, a 3D landscape of lines I finally thought it would be more exiting to do something with the web cam.
The idea is simple. Scan an image, in this case the image from the web cam from left to right. The more brightness a pixel has, the more the line gets pushed back at that point (in 3D space), and if it contains no brightness at all, it gets no depth at all. Repeat this process until you covered the whole image from top to bottom. Because flash needs to draw plenty of lines I used the new drawPath function in Flash 10 to speed things up a bit. If you have a webcam you can play around with the result for yourself over here.
This week we (me and Dave) finished a project for Johma to celebrate their 40 year existence. As you can see we used the kaleidoscope I experimented with earlier. I also did the architecture of the site. Lemon scented tea made the design and Dave did all the animations for the menu, buttons etc. Check it out here.
In a lot of my projects I use my own created language package. The language package manages different pieces of text for multiple languages at the same time. The text is stored in xml files which can be edited later without having to recompile the flash application. It also allows you to switch between different cultures dynamically.
Even though it was already a lot easier to edit text after an application was published, a lot people that had to edit the xml files had trouble doing it correctly, which caused corrupt xml files. Thats the reason why I created the LanguageTool which allows a more visual way of editing and doesn’t allow for mistakes to happen. It is still work in progress, but it should function just fine. There is an update function in the application which lets you check for updates. Download the language package, tool and example here.
Yesterday I did a little experiment to simulate a kaleidoscope. First I added some mouse interaction to it, so the user could drag the mouse to change the shape, but then I decided it would be more fun to let the kaleidoscope react to music. So turn on you sound and check it out here. Click on the movie to change the photo that is used to generate the image.
A little game I made for Rijkswaterstaat went live today, to celebrate their brand new website. Its a simple shuffle puzzle with some nice animations. The funny animations are made by the guys over at QI. You can watch/play the final result here, or at www.rijkswaterstaat.nl.
Last week I finished a game for NS Hispeed. The game consists of a nice green landscape with some butterflies. Press the button when the timer hits 0.00 and you can win a nice trip. Check it out here.
For a project I’m currently working on we had the idea to add butterflies to give a summery feeling to the environment. I used papervision3D to create and animate the butterflies. Click here for a sneak preview. Move the mouse left and right to rotate the field and click anywhere to follow a random butterfly.
Source is available for download here.
I just made two flash movies that use particles to create a nice visual. You can try them out here and here. Move your mouse around to create the image.
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