Interactive Flame Thrower

Just for fun, a little bit of experimentation and a bit of insomnia. I've never used Flash's ability to read microphone input so I thought I would check it out. Its actually quite limited in terms of accessing the raw data (although there is an online petition to get Adobe to allow access to raw mic data, and some cool stuff here). All you need to do is blow at your microphone and make flames!
Try it for yourself

Box2DAS3&PV3D (thats easy for me to say)

I've got to write a CV, build my portfolio proper etc, etc so I've been playing again instead .... Thanks to John Linquist I've revisited Box2D physics but this time integratedit with Papervision3D. The cubes in the example can be picked up and thrown around and stacked etc. It would be nice to be able to move them on the z axis (backward and forwards) but well - one step at a time I always say :)
Oh and if you're wondering what the letters and stuff mean they are the letters of reactionfaction.
Enjoy!

Tin Foil?

I revisited some old tutorials on Papervisio3D shaders and combined it with some AS3Dmod and came up with Tin Foil. I was going to call it "liquid metal" but, well its not really liquid is it?

Magic Carpet

I tried out Bartek Drozdz' AS3Dmod classes for Flash 3D tonight and I'm extremely impressed, particularly at how easy it is to get cool results. AS3Dmod is a set of Modifiers like you would find in a 3D modelling application like Maya or 3DS Max. The Magic Carpet example uses the Perlin modifier.

As usual click on the image to see it in action.

Bartek does some great 3D work in Flash. Right now he's got a sweet car demo on his blog. Go and check it out.

The Spiralizer

The Spiralizer is a different version of The Blade - almost the same but more reactive to the music.

The Blade

Yes its another visualizer but I think its got real retro power!

I call this one The Blade

Too much Candy?

Well I restarted Firefox and they all work again. I guess it must be a cache thing... too much candy and the fox gets sick!

Anyway here's another visualiser. This one looks like an eye so I've imaginatively called it Eye Candy!

More Candy!

I wrote a thousand words of my paper today so I though I'd reward myself by playing with Flash a bit more.
I came up with what I've called Candy Visualiser Its not interactive, you just admire its beauty!
Be warned! It is processor heavy so if you PC is old or slow it may crash! (sorry)

[Edit] I don't know whats going on with these Flash movies, sometimes they work and sometimes they dont....

I know all these generative art things have been done before but they are so much fun to do!

Smoking Wave Eye Candy: Revisited

As promised here is the Smoking Eye Candy demo that you can play with. You may need to download the Flash 10 plugin (firefox) or ActiveX (IE) but the page should have a link to make it nice and easy for you :)





I like it so much I used a screenshot for this blog title.

Let me know what you think.

[Update] There still seems to be an issue with Firefox, although it worked when I posted this :s
Safari seems OK though, and JackMedia says it works for him in FF and Safari. I would appreciate it if you could tell me about any issues - browser name/version etc.

Smoking Wave Eye Candy

Continuing from my last post "Ultimate Kaoss?" this uses the computeSpectrum method of the SoundMixer class. For some reason it wont work in a browser. When I work out why I'll post a link here so you can have a play.