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Wow, what a Friday night in Atlanta. A tornado hit downtown and tore up some stuff. It actually damaged the CNN Center/Omni Hotel a bit. Yes, the same spot 360|Flex Atlanta was in just a few weeks prior. The really freaky thing was, I was on Marta right under all of it as it was and just passed. I actually saw a couple people that had minor scratches and stuff after just running from the mess above. This after having Delta lose my luggage on a direct flight, err….

Check out the pics here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/15/storm.atlanta/index.html#cnnSTCPhoto

DK

So, I’ve been wanting to play around with this PaperVison3D schtuff. Why? Well, I certainly do not use 3D in my job, I just wanted to! Unfortunately time demands, new baby and all, keep me from really digging into it. Add to this, almost all the stuff so far that I have seen is Flash based…as in not Flex. There are a couple Flex based examples. One is in the PaperVision3D source called FlexFocus. Another recent great example is from that master robe wearer Doug McCune himself. He calls it CoverFlow. In either of these Flex based cases, terms like Sprite and Clipping are used, Flash terms again that I’m not all familiar with. Though I can brag about playing with Sprites on the C64 and IBM PC way back when, but those were wholly different animals. Thus I sat down and employed the all to famous design patter: Hack It Up. The result? A cross of Canvas3D and Lee Brimelow’s Carousel FLA.

Now, what the heck does the code do? I’ve commented some where I know, there is much in there I just don’t follow…yet. The short and skinny: the images are placed in planes, the planes are positioned and rotated in such a way to appear to be in a 3D carousel, this carousel is fixed, the buttons tell the camera to render the scene from a different vantage point along a circle. The math behind it is elementary, though I’m sure there is a bit more to that PaperVision3D Plane, BitMapMaterial, etc…

What does my version add to the mix? One, its Flex based…use the tag Luke! Two, I have incorporated the use of a public dataProvider to inject the URLs of the images. Yes Dorothy, you can change this dataProvider at runtime. See the example below, the test button at the bottom swaps the dataProvider.

Carousel Roundabout Exmaple
Source code is fully available via the context menu of FP.

DK

Born Nov 4 2007 at 8lbs 6oz, this is Sophia Louise. Hello everyone! Mom and baby are doing great. Niklas is now a big brother, something he is adjusting to.

Cheers!

DK

Howdy fans! Where is your fave man of the cubicle? Off to bigger and better things, that’s where. As of now I am on my way to work for Universalmind. I’ll be enduring grueling hi-tek Flex engagements and getting smacked around by some well known Flash/Flex guru who is master of the realm of the almighty C64. w00t! So, get out those email clients and drop me some bits on where you are at, eh?

Peas!

DK

hello fans and stalkers. So I moved my whole home grown self coded PHP based blog over to Wordpress. Why? Well, Wordpress has many nifty cool features that my home grown code didn’t have. I could have whipped up the code for it, but alas I’d rather not spend my time with it, there are more intersting things to code and learn than a blog, eh? Anyhoo…enjoy!

Yo kiddies!? Where have I been?? Yeah, having a kid puts a dent in the free time for blogging, not that I ever was a blogging preak mind you.? Anyhoo, time to get swinging here.? You should start seeing some entries on Macromedia Flex as that’s what I have been invovlved with lately.? On the personal side, Nik is 7 months old now!? Wow!? He had his first cold recently too, that was fun.? anyhoo….peas out

Wow, like it has taken me forever to post here! Yeah, long time no bloggy. Well, been busy crazy with the new kid here and a new project at work. Niklas is growing along quickly and healthly thanks to his mom. He has his first tooth coming in with signs of a second too. One of his grandmas, wei po, is heading back to Shanghai soon, she is sure to be missed by all.

Work stuffs…on a new project involving Flex, sure to be kewl. ITs sapping up some time though for sure. Having to relearn some Java and learn ActionScript, MXML, and J2EE stuff all at the same time. Oh, and throw in using eclipse too. Woot! ok…back to the code monkey cage.

peas…

ok, had to get the Gator outfit shot put up straight away, eh?

Here is a pic of Niklas, the new addition to our family. Yup, yours truly has now entered the world of diaper changes! w00h00! Nik is sooooooo l33t! More pics to come for sure.

Tonight my mother-in-law arrived from Shanghai.? Yeah, uber fun eh?? LOL!? She is visiting and?here to celebrate the arrival of our son.? Lucky me I know about a dozen words in Chinese and she knows about a dozen words in English.? Ha!? Kidding aside, she’s kewl.? Hey, here is a pic of her and Crystale taken tonight at the airport.? Just need to find her a majhong partner now….