SourceBinder » papervision

Refactoring and a little flint experiment

mind — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:03:51 +0000

Although it could look as there would be not to much happening with SourceBinder these days, but i can ensure you: we are heavily working to get SourceBinder into public beta for February. In case you have missed it: SourceBinder will be introduced in Amsterdam on the FITC. And i can tell you we have a long long way to go. Currently the whole source code is going through a refactoring which was already quite necessary since it evolved from a prototype which we made for the Flashconference last year. But refactoring is a good opportunity to re-think the whole environment with interaction design and simplicity kept in mind. Hopefully i can make a post soon on the new killer feature which is to simplify the quite difficult task of putting together compositions.

To keep you patient while waiting to lay hands on our shiny thing i made a composition public which i made using the cool Flint particle library and of course Papervision. Flint is really just ideal to be put into sourcebinder: there are so many classes to try out which a huge variety of settings. In this composition i made a little twist on a typical particle setup: the initial particle positions are derived from a DisplayObject3D-s vertex positions.

Spacetime composition

Click on the image to open the composition in preview mode.

This way any 3D object with accessible vertex information can be used. In this comp i used a torus to drive my little particles. To make a nice animation i used LFO nodes to create a constantly changing forcefield. Be sure to try different power and epsilon settings which affect the gravity field. If you happen to loose your particles you can replay the animation anytime with the restart button.

If you would like to explore the composition click here to open it in Sourcebinder. Don’t forget: you can also have a look at the sourcecode of the nodes by double clicking two times on them.

using a displayObject3D's vertex information..

Particles and sound spectrum

sampi — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:43:56 +0000

Here are two creative compositions, that were made in collaboration by our very first sourcbinder alpha users. The first one uses PV3D particles and the bitmap effect layer to create a “3d-blurred” dizzy particle field. The second uses sound3d to play and transform mp3 sound in space and a sound spectrum node with a cube array to visualize the sound.

Dizzy Particles

Sound Spectrum Visualisation

There’s someone under the carpet – displacing vertices with image stream

sampi — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:41:59 +0000

Making a carpet out of a simple plane is not as difficult as it seems. Just drive the plane through a modifier node and use an image stream as the modifier source. A video or the webcam footage will be perfect. The modifier node displaces the vertices by an offset calculated from the corresponding the pixel values of the mapped source image. The best result can be achieved with a white background and a dark object. Alternately you could also use an interactive sprite and convert it to a bitmap. If you have a webcam and you are in a bright room you have to check out the second composition.

Displacement with Video

Displacement with Webcam

GreatWhite FX

sampi — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:36:29 +0000

I was so excited about And Zupko’s work with the new Papervision effect branch, i just had to give it a try in SourceBinder. You can try the compositions and play with the setting as usual (from now on) in explore mode. If you have a webcam you should connect the MovieMaterial node to the Sphere in the first composition. You can do that either by Alt clicking the MovieMaterial node and droping the line on the Sphere node or with the output connector of the same node. SourceBinder will aply the connection automaticaly on the material input of the sphere, because of its type. Have fun!

3DFx Layer on Webcam

3DFx Layer on Cube

Physics simulation and Wiimote

sampi — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:30:25 +0000

Here is a video that shows the process of making a basic physics simulation in SourceBinder. In the simulation, 60 spheres are bouncing on a plane. The plane’s rotation is driven by the pitch and roll values of a wiimote. The physic simulation is done with the great WOW phisics engine, for the 3d rendering we used Papervision3D primitves and the Wiimote handling is done with WiiFlash. Click on the image to watch the video.

Physics Simulation in 98 seconds

You can also watch this video on Youtube
Though the quality is much more worse

Video of SourceBinder in action

sampi — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:28:28 +0000

This video tutorial shows how Binder can be used to create a Flash movie with 3d objects (using Papervision) and regular Flash stuff, like perlin noise and glow filter mixed together.

View Tutorial Video

Screenshots of SourceBinder

sampi — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:24:53 +0000

The big screenshot pictures the featured demo composition of a globe put in some wierd space. The screenshots underneath were made of a basic physics composition which uses the WOW physics engine and the Papervision library to display the objects.

SourceBinder in Action

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Camera3d 1

Camera3d 2

Camera3d 3