delusionofgrandeur

I ran across Five3D earlier, a work of Mathieu Badimon demonstrating browser-based 3D effects written in Actionscript 3.0.

From the moment you hit the site and your mouse cursor starts ‘painting’ the browser window, you know you’re on to a winner. Then there’s the demos which briefly show an ‘earth cube’ which you can size and rotate, ‘elements menu’ which is just a cool menu, ‘famous quote’ which renders a quote in 3D text with drop-shadow, ‘fake equaliser’ which renders a 3D rotating ‘EQ’ and finally ‘Video Player’ [pictured] which draws a manipulable 3D sqauare and renders a real-time Youtube-style video on it’s surface.

The video rendering is absolutely seemless on a recent C2D based system and I presume this doesn’t use hardware acceleration as, as far as I know, Flash has no access to hardware 3D acceleration (or am I wrong on this?)

The real bonus is that the whole framework for implementing these demos is available from Mathieu with a full-permissive open-source licence.

The downside is, I can’t think off hand of a use for this sort of thing on a website at the moment. Of course, that’s just my own lack of imagination, I’m sure we will see some really creative uses of this technology in due course.

Note: You will probably need the latest version of flash to view the site.

Tags: 3d, actionscript, five3d, flash, hardware acceleration, macromedia, mathieu badimon, video

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