It’s time to elaborate on the previous blog post’s topic and investigate one of the most important scene graph nodes: the Mesh. It’ll probably be the object you’ll be working with most, and it allows a form of flexibility that can really provide a benefit to your memory usage and performance. That is, of course,…
Since I’ve been working on Away3D 4.0 (Broomstick) for the past few months, it was pretty hard to find the energy to keep this blog up to date, and the promised part 2 of Hacking the Lite kept getting delayed. And delayed. And then delayed some more. Having access to the GPU also caused some…
For those living near Cologne, Germany, I’m stoked to announce I’ll be speaking at FFK (FlashForum Konferenz) this year. I’m particularly excited, as last year’s edition is still one of my best experiences in 2010, even though a certain Eyjafjallajökull caused an interesting aftermath for many :-). Titled “Keeping it Real”, the session will mainly…
Exciting times afoot! In the not too distance future, we’ll finally get what we’ve been nagging about! I’m of course talking about Molehill, the new hardware-accelerated API Adobe is working on. If you’re curious what we’re doing with Away3D, take a peak at the demo we did with the guys from Evoflash for Adobe MAX.…
As promised in my previous post, I would elaborate on some of the things done for the demo. So I’m taking a quick break from work to get this post done :) Marching Cubes One thing I did was implement a marching cubes algorithm using Pixel Bender, which is a way to triangulate an isosurface…