My First Car

I found this picture today (thanks to Claire and Phil for sending it to me a while ago), its not actually my first car but its much less embarassing!
Thats me sat inside although you can't really see me, outside Hash View in Blackwell Warwickshire, former home of Phillip "burn" Matthews! The shadows are Burn and Craig Begley, we were a posse at the time.
Those were the days....

Pointless Painting Powered by Papervision3D

Being part of the Papervision3D community means I get sent links to new sites all the time and they're mostly very slick websites.
Well this one's different. There's absolutely no point to it at all except FUN!

Its by the guys at iq12 to celebrate their birthday. Check it out here.

Cool Digital Art

I found this nice little piece while looking through Chu Yue's portfolio site (yes its a real name, not an improper suggestion!) and thought it was really nice. Its made with Papervision3D.

Cool Augmented Reality Using Papervision and Flash

The guys over at BOFFSWANA have done something very cool using the FLARToolkit and Papervision3D. All you need is a webcam (and abit of AS3, Papervision and general Flash knowledge) and you can make little monsters appear to be walking around your desk! Go over and check it out on their site and leave them a comment if you think its cool. Which you do.



Papervision - Augmented Reality (extended) from Boffswana on Vimeo

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

Capital Punishment

Man, what a bummer.

So we went to London to wow the hordes of prospective students with our Interactive Table. We arrived in the Business and Design Centre in Islington at about 9am to set up armed with our blackout material for the roof of the stand.
Now, let me explain. The GMX in Manchester had a high roof with big red lights. After a couple of hours of confusion wondering why we were having problems with the table, we pointed the IR camera at te roof and realised that the big red lights were in fact beaming a big fat load of Infra Red light straight down - they must be heat lamps or something. So we went out and got some curtain blackout material for the roof of the stand and things were good.
Alas, the Business and Design Centre has a glass roof :(
Despite the fact it had been snowing in London the day before it was of course, a beautiful sunny day. Even with the stand covered the amount of light coming in was too much for our table and we were, as they say, scuppered.
We did get it working for the last half hour of the day when it was starting to get dark, but of course the thousands of students had pretty much all gone.
The free wine at the exhibitors reception was very nice though :)