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Over the last days I've spent some time twittering back and forth with Eugene. His supershape demo is very cool and we spent some time 'tweeting' about shaders. This lead me to upload and twitter one of my experiments which I used as part of my FOTB / MAX presentation. Judging by the huge number of retweets it seems people enjoyed it a lot, so I figured that it was worth a blog post. I started working on this experiment a while back after toying around with OpenGL, OpenFrameworks and audio reactive shapes and that inspired me to do something similar in Flash. This is an unfinished demo as it lead me to pursue something else, at which point I stopped working on it.

In the session where this came from, specifically this part, I shared information about the path of yet another demo, where this experiment led me too. Some of you who attended Flash on the Beach, might recall it from the Adobe keynote, where it was aptly named "milky ball".  I'll present on it one more time on the 3rd of December at the AUG XL event, in Amsterdam. I'll post more of the session's demos with explanation, when I have the time.

I do want to clarify that the code base I've created for this, which I currently call Triangle3D, is not to be a new Papervision3D, Away3D, Alternativa3D, Infinity3D, Sandy3D, Null3D or Yogurt3D (I'm probably missing a couple, sorry, have your way in the comments). It's my experimental playground of classes to play around, with no care for architecture restrictions or a generalized API. It's all about me playing and enjoying. Pure experimentation of what can be achieved with Flash 3D and hoping to find something beautiful in it.

Orignal unfinished demo

Demo with adjusted lightmaps from my new mirrorball.

(here's the shot of the mirrorball, on flickr).

The music track is Sixtyten by Boards of Canada.

The Dutch Adobe User Group is the fastest growing dutch community for creative professionals and I'm proud to announce I'm now officially an ambassador for the Adobe User Group.

For those who know me a bit already, you'd know I used to be in the board for the User Group, and was amongst the original founders, after the Macromedia UG was rebooted as the Adobe User Group back in 2007.  In all honesty, I wasn’t able to be active beyond that point. A schedule of work, conferences and workshops has put me into a great place in my life, but I wasn't contributing to this amazing community initiative, nor working as hard as my fellow board members. These guys have lifted an huge amount of work and enthousiasm to create an amazing User Group. The work they did has put this User Group at the top of the world wide lists of user groups.

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I just returned from teaching the Papervision3D workshop in Sweden; it was an awesome group and good fun! For all those who attended : Thank you very much for the good and fun workshop, you where an awesome group! Also many thanks for Johan and Marcus from the local usergroup for helping out with the event!

This week Saturday I'll be heading off to Chicago to be part of the FITC Chicago event. I'm looking forward to doing my Flash 2D & 3D effects session as well as a 1 day workshop on Papervision3D. If you haven't registered yet, make sure you do so as there are still some tickets left, but they are going fast!

Register here for the RMI Papervision3D 2.0 workshop Chicago.

Sorry for the silence on this blog lately, personal matters take priority and as such it will be more quiet here over the coming months. But expect a nice blog on some exiting news here tomorrow. Looking forward to see any of you attending FITC Chicago.

And then some more exiting news; FITC Seoul is happening and I am lucky enough to be invited to come over and speak amongst these great names ; Joshua Davis, Erik Natzke, Kyle Cooper, Richard Galvan, Marcos Weskamp, and Euna Seoul. With such an awesome line up, I'm sure this will surely be a success and a opportunity for us to reach out to the korean / asian community! Looking forward to see any of you there!