[Papervision3D] vamos a la playa! :)

Carlos Lunetta carlos.lunetta at gmail.com
Fri Apr 6 15:02:34 EDT 2007


Have you guys worked with Processing OpengGL mode? It's a pretty smooth 
"mode tweak" - if you define the applet to run in OpenGL, everything is 
the same from the software accelerated version, but it uses hardware. 
That would be a great way to go.


Trevor Burton wrote:
> The speculation around hardware support for Flash Player seems to be 
> constant... there may, in future be some form of hardware support in 
> future versions of Flash but at the moment the desire from Adobe to 
> keep the player download small and the ability of the Flash Player to 
> render content in EXACTLY the same way on every system is the driving 
> force behind there NOT being any hardware support so far...
>
> ...As soon as there's hardware support there will be a need for a 
> variety of low-level libraries to try and provide everyone with a 
> similar experience and we'll all start having the sort of issues faced 
> by C++ developers about which system to use which we're lucky to be 
> free from right now...
>
> ...for a long time a lot of Actionscript developers have been hacking 
> away at producing 3D solutions for flash, either for production jobs 
> or  just for our own amusement... now PV3D has come along everyone's 
> talking about hardware support and wanting more, more, more! It'll 
> probably come at some point in the next couple of years... until then 
> we have to be sneaky, crafty and clever in the way that we develop 
> applications in order to produce what we want...
>
> Developers who worked on early systems like the spectrum and amiga had 
> to be clever and find ingenious ways to use the limited resources at 
> their disposal. We're in the same position now as they were then but 
> we have access to all the tricks that they came up with. Let's stand 
> on the shoulders of those giants and create some cool stuff. Then when 
> hardware support comes along we'll be all the more skilled for it and 
> take it even further.
>
> But that's just like, you know, my opinion, man....
>
> T
>
> On 4/6/07, *Sebastian Mohr* <sebastian.mohr at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sebastian.mohr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Ralph,
>
>     what's the name of Adobe's 3D api for the FlashPlayer? Will
>     it be included into the FlashPlayer 10? Where can I have look
>     at it?
>
>     Maybe the Tamarin-Project is the key to the need
>     to access hardware-accelerating components:
>
>     http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/
>
>     ???
>
>     Regards,
>     masu
>
>
>
>     On 4/6/07, *Ralph Hauwert * <r.hauwert at gmail.com
>     <mailto:r.hauwert at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Martin,
>
>         Welcome to the list. I think we all feel PV3D has some future,
>         in one way or another. Even if Adobe starts having their own
>         3D api with hardware support, PV3D's API will be a nice
>         stepping stone towards it for most developers. But this is all
>         just pure speculation, we don't know what we'll get in the new
>         release in the Flash Player....
>
>         Ralph.
>
>
>         On 4/6/07, *Sebastian Mohr* < sebastian.mohr at gmail.com
>         <mailto:sebastian.mohr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Hi Marcin,
>
>             welcome, I'm new to this maillinglist to :)
>
>             Do you have a website for this
>
>               "ESRI WebArc Explorer"-Viewer
>
>             where I can have a look at it?
>
>             Thank you,
>             masu
>
>
>
>             On 4/6/07, *Marcin Czech* < loobuz at gmail.com
>             <mailto:loobuz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 Thats my first post so hello everyone!
>                 Im a student doin research on web 3D and GIS systems.
>                 I saw someone mentioning PaperEarth3D.. so here is my
>                 50cents
>                 GIS systems are kind of visualization of geo data,
>                 making decisions, planings etc on it. That kind of
>                 buisness exploded when google released its google
>                 maps. The market is evolving and so are technologies.
>                 Few months ago ESRI the main player on GIS released
>                 WebArc Explorer based on Adobe Flex (ActionScrpit 3.0)
>                 with is more fancy google maps. However still 2D.
>                 There is a big demand on 3D in web, thats a fact and
>                 there are several technologies to make it going. There
>                 are no stable standards of 3D at the moment. X3D is
>                 good as a representation of files, but the players
>                 (Flux for instance) require another plug-in to be
>                 installed. People dont like to install plugins, thats
>                 life. There is a plug-in however  - Flash Player. 90%
>                 of ppl got it. Stable, supported by a big player
>                 Adobe, and it has nice 3D open source engine :)
>                 created by programmers for programmers - that is how
>                 the practical standards are created. Now my point here
>                 is that for me PaperVision3d has a bright future, it
>                 can (it is already) used on web pages, used for
>                 presentations, its soon gonna be standard like Flash
>                 became a standard for 2D. If Adobe will take a deeper
>                 look at 3D on web, and it will (that is called
>                 progress) - things can become more fancy for
>                 PaperVision3D.
>                 Now I mentioned about the deal between Adobe and ESRI
>                 (GIS). I find PaperVision3D as a great tool to give 3D
>                 city representations on public. First of all there is
>                 plenty of city data created, very simple based on XML
>                 (city GML), so that it wont be a bottleneck for
>                 engine. Now image goin through your virtual city in
>                 your browser. Anyone can do that - coz everyone got
>                 FPlayer, and i think cities would pay money to get
>                 that kind of online presentation on their web pages or
>                 just to present the city on some exhibitions outside
>                 the country for instance. Didnt convince u? how about
>                 using Flex and WebServices to get data from Geo
>                 Servers at runtime. Or how about multiplayer real city
>                 with video cams and chats? My point here is that Flex
>                 + PV3D will find nice place to live here in GIS
>                 systems environment. Its just its practical usage and
>                 simplicity.
>
>                 P.S sorry for my english
>
>                 Marcin Czech
>                 www.sauax.boo.pl <http://www.sauax.boo.pl>
>                 http://gisflex3d.blogspot.com/
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