After a couple months of work, Nascom‘s latest big project for Sony Vaio was able to go live, celebrating Vaio’s 10th anniversary. To read all the grubby details about it, you can check the full blog post at Nascom. It was a blast working on this project, mainly because it gave me a chance to…
Time for another simple oldschool demo effect as an excuse to mess around with Pixel Bender :) So just like before, you need Player 10 if you’re interested in seeing the result. I only provided the swf this time, so if you don’t have it yet, grab the standalone player here and check the preview.…
Well, I suppose it couldn’t wait much longer… I just had to get my hands on Pixel Bender and do some tryouts. Initially, I set out to make a simple Mandelbrot set, which was pretty darn speedy in the Toolkit. However, once I turned on the Flash error checks, a few disappointments smacked me in…
Bump mapping in AS3 has been done a couple of times before already, but I thought it would be cool to try out the effect with a seperate bump map for diffuse and specular lighting (with only slightly different logic for each ‘layer’, and that is how the light maps are calculated). It’s great to…
The past week, I’ve mainly spent trying to figure out how to do (fake) Phong shading and environment mapping. In the case of phong, the result can be seen here. A few alternatives that I tried didn’t work out, but after some quick hints from Ralph and lots of calculations, I found a solution that…