A quick post on the fiddly little things I’ve been working on!

I’ve recently been mucking around with various Actionscript libraries and have created several little programs just to see what’s possible.  These programs are SO minimal that it will probably seem pointless me even showing them(!)

Augmented reality fiddle (print the marker from here) – you will need a webcam for this one…  Go to the page and hold up the marker.  If everything is running correctly, you will see a picture of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as their characters in Lethal Weapon (what can I say, I’m a huge fan).  A music track also plays.  You should notice that moving the marker around will cause the music to pan around too…  This was made using the FLARToolkit which everyone seems to be jumping on at the moment.

Popforge audio filter fiddle – you’ll need to wait a while for the audio to load and there is a slight chance that this will break…!  However if you get it working, you should be able to move the sliders around to control the cutoff values of several filters.  The offline demo of this can also be controlled by waving a Wii Remote around which is incredibly fun and something that I don’t believe has been done on the Wii console itself, though god knows why.  The demo uses the Popforge library which is the understated GODSEND for anyone wanting to manipulate audio ‘properly’ with Actionscript, compared to the frankly poor methods that Adobe have provided up til now.  The library also enables waveforms to be generated so you can make your own synth if you wish (see my Porfolio in a post! article).

Physics engine fiddle - this is kinda cool but boring after a short time haha… This demostrates the use of a physics engine with Papervision.  There are quite a few physics engines available for Actionscript, all providing slightly different capabilities, however this is the WOW-Engine.  Just hover on the small box to see it jump around!

Essentially, I’m more interested in what’s possible at the moment and thinking way less about practical ways to use all these abilities – all about the (lofi) tech demos!

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