Time for the iPhone 3G
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | iPhone | No Comments
Anyone that knows me will know that my phones don’t last very long. I managed to have my iPhone for about 6 months before I broke it last night. I was happily washing up when I knocked something with my hand and watched it disappear into the soapy hot water. I was gutted for about 2 seconds until I realised that I could use it as an excuse to buy a new iPhone 3G. All my idiot friends that always go on about how good the Nokia n95 is compared to the iPhone were obviously pleased with this result; its as though they think there phones would float.
Its quite clever though as the screen still comes on but only to tell me that its broke. Better get on the phone to 02 now…
EDIT: My phone magically started working again, sweet.
GreatWhite - getting the camera to focus on (0, 0, 0).
Monday, August 18th, 2008 | 3d, actionscript, flash, greatwhite, papervision | No Comments
I recently ported a project that I’m working on from Papervision 1.5 to Papervision 2.0 Great White. The port was pretty easy and didn’t take long at all; the only little quirk I noticed was that the camera didn’t focus on (0, 0, 0) like it did in 1.5, the camera just kind of translated x/y coordinates without pivoting along the y and x axis.
I solved this problem quickly and easily by adding an empty DisplayObject3D to the scene and then within the enter frame simply using camera.lookAt(dispObject) to look at the display object.
I’m sure theres a more elegant way to do this - and I would love to hear it but this way seems to work great for me.
Cuil competition - find the most random image
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 | search engines | No Comments
Yesterday saw the launch of a new search engine - Cuil. Cuil says it index’s 3 times as many pages as Google and 10 times as many pages as Microsoft. It seems loads of people are not taking to Cuil and a lot of blogs are saying they don’t like it. I actually quite like it, the interface is excellent and the category accordian at the top right of the page is a great idea. The one thing that did my head in though was the pictures, they seem to be consistently wrong. I searched Bigbeam Interactive and it came up with a “Bijoux Spring Summer Sale”! Try it for yourself by clicking here. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a moaner and I find this pretty funny. There should be a challenge to find the most innapropriate image for a listing.
Amazing non-papervision 3D engine
Monday, July 28th, 2008 | 3d, actionscript, flash, papervision | No Comments
On the Papervision 3D mailing list the other day someone mentioned Roxiks 3D engine. This is from the same bloke who made the Eco Zoo. Obviously a very talented man. I’ve not seen it mentioned anywhere else so I thought I’d mention it.