Well, I’ve been fooling around with papervision for a while now. Sure enough, I’ve completed my first project with it.

The goal was to replace the old portfolio display/home page that my employer, Biggs Gilmore previously had. We wanted to use papervision with the goal in mind to really step it up a notch. I knew just by choosing papervision as the route, we couldn’t go wrong.

We knew we wanted to go with some sort of a “photo wall”. After about a month of working on the weekends and after work, I came up with something fairly slick. The release of Papervision 2.0 could not have been better timed, I quickly ported my app over to GreatWhite and gained a significant performance increase.

And finally, see it for yourself:

Well, I attended the Adobe AIR bus tour in Chicago. I was actually surprised with how beneficial the sessions were in terms of explaining how AIR works with Flex and/or HTML. I was surprised to see Grant Skinner there. He talked about a lot of different ideas and uses of AIR and the general potential, it was inspiring.

I am and will continue to toy around with Flex/AIR and see where it leads. My primary responsibilities are all AS2, so I’m slightly at a disadvantage with time. But nonetheless I will be making it a point to keep with it.

Here are my notes during all the sessions:

(Keep in mind that I am not fantastic with taking notes, I typically will do "keyword writing" when I take note, and they were moving along kind of quick.)

• Features of Adobe Air:
  • File system access
  • Network Detection
  • Notifications
  • Applications Update
  • Drag and Drop
  • Local Database
• Sites to check out:
  • http://airapps.pbwiki.com/
  • http://www.adobe.com/go/air
  • http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/
  • http://onair.adobe.com/
  • http://onair.adobe.com/api/
• Required in all Flex/Air Apps:
  • Application files (.mxml)
  • Application Descriptor file (.xml)
• Why is he showing command line crap for the html air apps?
• Apps to checkout:
  • Aptana (www.aptana.com)

This has pretty much been a far-fetched concept that I have been wanting to see done with flash for a long time.

In AS2, it is pretty much not even worth trying, But this beautiful flash 3D demo by John Grden demonstrates the potential for the future of 3D and Flash.

This certainly opens the door for several oncoming ideas, 2007 will be an interesting time for flash. can’t wait to see more!

Update: Check out this SWEET Bumpmapping demo made with papervision3d.