Aug 22, 2008
Coign of Vantage
I stumbled upon a very interesting flash game called Coign of Vantage the other day. It makes very interesting use of 3D and perspective to creative quite an addictive game.
Archive for August, 2008
Aug 20, 2008
BBC Trial in page links
For a limited period the BBC News Website is experimenting with clickable links within the body of news stories. If you click on one of these links, a window will appear containing background material relevant to the highlighted word. Content is being pulled in from sites like YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia and it seems to be done pretty well.
Aug 19, 2008
Photo Real Human Animation
The company behind the animation for the recent Grand Theft Auto game have developed a new system which has overleapt a long-standing barrier known as 'uncanny valley' - refering to the perception that animation looks less realistic as it approaches human likeness.
Aug 6, 2008
Search visually…
"...a whole new way to search. More fun, more entertaining, more interesting, more effective..."
With this lovely new search site/tool you can view combined results from multiple search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Flikr, and more...) in various visual layouts.
Each of the available 'views' is a real treat - spend some time with them and have fun searching.
Aug 4, 2008
Multi-storey type
Posted by admin | Filed under Cool stuff
Look at this type in a carpark in Melbourne. Its painted on and is designed to work when standing in the right position.
Aug 1, 2008
AS3 Design Patterns
I recently stumbled apon this rather useful site - http://www.as3dp.com/ - useful if you're a Actionscript 3.0 developer that is.
"This blog continues the discussion that started with our book; ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns published by O’Reilly Media. Reusable design patterns are an ideal way to solve common problems in Flash, Flex and AIR applications..."
