Last week I posted an example of Environment Mapping using FP10’s native 3D and Pixel Bender. The reactions were quite positive, which motivated me to push the concept a bit further and create more shaders using Pixel Bender. These new additions all work in the same fashion, ie. as Filters which need to be updated…
Since Flash Player 10 introduced native 3D functionality, the world of “postcard 3D” rejoiced as doing simple 3D tasks became much easier… Just as long as it did not involve z-sorting or shading effects. The z-sorting has been tackled before, and here’s an attempt at implementing the second idea. Partly out of boredom and partly…
One final thing I wanted to achieve with smoke effects is to port the 2D simulation to 3D. Early results in pure AS3 were pretty disappointing, so again I turned to Pixel Bender and its speedy goodness. Still, the main obstacle was of course performance. The first step was to optimize the original 2D version…
The first post on this blog dates from May 4th, 2008, so I thought it fitting to look back at the year that has passed since then. Over the time I’ve done some experiments/projects that, when I look back at them, make me think “What was I thinking?!”. On the other hand, there are luckily a few…
When looking at my blog stats, the most popular post by far is the old Ripple effect I did some time ago, which was based on an old demoscene trick. For a while, I’ve wanted to do a more physically correct version based on shallow water equations. Since the watercolour effect I did was based…