Here’s my list of things that were cool to me in no particular order:

1) Papervision X – Ralph Hauwert
- 3d renderer optimized for Flash Player 10
- Ralph used Alchemy and Pixel bender to run Quake in Flash at 60 FPS!!

2) Colin Mook – Your Phone is Your Controller
- http://www.playmegaphone.com/
- http://unionplatform.com/intro.html

3) Sourcebinder
- http://sourcebinder.org/
- drag and drop node based programming
- break out game built on the fly with audience interaction using a webcam

SourBinder Tutorial: The basics from Balazs Serenyi on Vimeo.

4) Gary Stasiuk – Visual PV3d
- Flash Visualization Application that provides a GUI interface to create and manipulate objects in 3D scenes using Papervision3D

Vizual PV3D from Juxt Interactive on Vimeo.

- http://www.juxtinteractive.com/_download/vizualpv3d.zip

5) Vector Vision
- allows you to use vectors in Papervision
- http://blog.barcinski-jeanjean.com/2008/05/16/vectorsvision-vectors-in-papervision3d/
- http://www.barcinski-jeanjean.com/entries/vectorvision/SvgExample.html

6) Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman
- Augmented Reality Magic 1.0

7) Jared Ficklin
- music visualization through physical objects
- nirvana songs visualized on paper show similarities between songs; verse – chorus – verse
- showed 4 patterns and asked which one was likely a nirvana song, the one most similar was actually a foo fighters song!

Mario Klingemann
- bitmap manipulation turning ordinary bitmaps into Van Gogh like paintings.
- http://www.aviary.com
- using Keith Peters minimal components

9) Pixel Bender Game
- http://www.kongregate.com/games/GlaielGamer/closure

10) The Spark Project – Japanese Flash Community
- http://www.libspark.org/wiki/WikiStart/en
Photorealistic AR

Me too (doing some AR stuff)! from Anatoly Zenkov on Vimeo.

Frocessing
- Processing like AS3 drawing library
- http://www.libspark.org/wiki/nutsu/Frocessing/en

BetweenAS3
- new tween engine that performs better than the major players tweener, tween max…
- http://www.libspark.org/svn/as3/BetweenAS3/trunk

SWFWheel
- support for mac scroll wheel no javascript required
- http://www.libspark.org/wiki/SWFWheel/en

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The multimedia industry is trending towards to more interactive content. Users are spending more time interacting and having fun with content, rather than being “sold” a specific brand or message.When a need arises for a certain application, then the technology becomes mainstream.

Adobe Interactive Installation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-NRdyUx8Lc

This installation allows multiple users to create musical content using a multi touch music wall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qmmdGonQW4

MESO is a design team comprised of four designers and one computer engineer. They tout themselves as torn between art and technology, which allows them to bring innovative solution for clients. They do commercial work, while maintaining an artistic base. George Michael used massive interactive stage sets with realtime audio analysis and position tracking in his last Live25 world tour. http://meso.net/GMI25Live

Alexander Calder was an artist that employed the use of balance and motion in his world renown mobile installations. One of Zach Booth Simpon’s complaints is that when museums display these works of art, they don’t allow patrons to touch or blow on these works of art, interaction which Calder had originally intended. This frustration, led to Simpson’s virtual Calder’s: http://www.mine-control.com/zack/balance/balance.html

Webcamtastic is similar to the Photo Booth that come preinstalled on a Mac. It is a Flash web application that accesses your webcam, allowing you to manipulate photos by using distortion and blur filters. http://www.webcamtastic.com/

Potential applications:

Imagine going to a Japanese restaurant, and being able to order sushi from an interactive menu. This would eliminate the need for wait staff and give patrons and detailed description of the menu items.

In order to market the new Simpson’s movie, they made a Simpson’s character creator in Flash.

Note the apostrophe in the title is a WordPress bug I’m trying to resolve!