BackSpaceStudios Blog

Data Visualization + Radiohead + More

Radiohead’s latest video for “House of Cards” was created using a truly unique technology that interprets information from the atmosphere to generate a stream of data that can then be represented visually using resources like Papervision3D and Processing.

Google Code is hosting the Data Visualization application for you to explore the data through a 3D viewer and use your mouse to further manipulate the data and create your own visualizations.

This interactive piece was made by Aaron Meyers and Aaron Koblin using a modified version of PV3D. For more info check it out over at google code.

Casting Shadows in PV3

Andy Zupko posted some very cool PV3 tests yesterday on Papervision Shadow casting. I will definitely be trying this and will post my resutls.

3D engine from nulldesign

Lars Gerckens, a freelance Flash developer and the man behind NULLDESIGN, has always been someone I’ve looked up to when it comes to experimental Flash. I have been following his blog for a while now and he has always been an inspiration for some of my own experimental work. A good friend or mine and Technical Director of BackSpaceStudios has been experimenting with PV3 recently and has begun his own open source project called PV3World.

I’ve been so busy lately experimenting with red5, that I’ve falling a bit out of the Flash 3D loop, so when Geoff passed a long a few files from NULLDESIGN I was amazed to see the work that Lars has been doing building his own 3D engine!

Ok, enough of the banter on to the examples…

Here are 6, of the many, cool examples that Lars has been working on using his 3D engine. Enjoy!

Back from FITC…

FITC was a huge success this year….

I’m happy to report that our booth, Seneca and PHUG, was the most popular booth on the floor…probably ’cause we where giving away FREE chocolate ;0

Attendees where very excited to see the student papervision3D work on display, it’s no swimming dolphin, but the students did a great job considering they had only 7 days to produce a full pv3 interface with collision and interactivity, GOOD JOB!!!

- kapachka interface developed by Students in the Digital Media Arts program at Seneca College, Alex Nasser, Miaomiao Kuang, Dan Coltri, Robbie Luziuz Vanin, Ricardo Jazmines, Amanda Labatia.

Another popular student project at FITC was pv3world.com, developed by Geoff Palin, Digital Media Arts student at Seneca College, this project drew attendees daily. Geoff Palin has also accepted a position at BackSpaceStudios as a lead developer, we are very happy to have him on board!

Geoff Palin was also responsible for designing/developing the official Seneca@FITC blog http://www.phug.ca/fitc

Other highlights at the festival…

I had the opportunity to meet and geek out with the guy’s from papervision3D, paperworld3D, red5, Ribbit, and the one and only AS guru R Blank. I especially enjoyed discussing both PHUG and DMA student experimental pv3 work with Ralph Hauwert. I attended his Flash 2D and 3D effects presentation…all I can say is WOW! I also had the opportunity to sit down with Trevor Burton, the man behind paperworld3D. What an amazing individual, the man is an absolute genius! I’m hoping to contribute to the development of paperworld3D and eventually build some commercial apps with it…One of my favorite presentations was Ribbit. These guy’s have some of the coolest components I have seen in a long time. I am hoping to continue working with them on some PHUG and Seneca events as well as nominating some of my students for internships…I did not forget about R Blank…He gave an excellent presentation on AS3. BackSpaceStudios is happy to announce that we will be helping out with the re-build for the RMI site.

I will back post my blogs from the event under papervision, red5, and AS3.

Trevor Burton’s paperworld3d

Chris Allen walked us through the basic setup and installation of red5. The overall presentation was a basic intro to the red5 environment…I felt he did a really good job of explaining how what red5 is and how it works…especially considering majority of the attendees had never touch red5 before.

The examples included the demo files that are bundled in the current distribution of red5. If you have not yet had a chance to check these out I highly recommend you do http://www.digs.jp:5080/demos/ !

The highlight of the presentation was Trevor Burton’s demo of his new project paperworld3D, which is built on red5 and papervision3d…very cool stuff…paperworld3D is only a month old and is already dropping mouths in the pv3 and red5 communities….essentially paperword3D is a 3D multi-user environment.

Check out the online demo at http://www.paperworld3d.com and if you like what you see make sure you help contribute any way you can to this project because it !@#$% ROCKS!!!

- Brendan