University of Washington and Microsoft created together a software which looks like next step Photosynth. In project titled “Finding Paths through the World’s Photos” shown in video above it is presented what they’ve achived, like finding orbits that best displays objects in 360 views, optimised transition between two photos putting natural set of photos inbetween so it looks more natural, panoramas, and interesting views which all makes you browse and get more natural feel with photos taken.
I am sure all of this features are made to be put into the Photosynth. Great stuff.
So how one flash website can be called supersite. Lets go step by step :
1. Purpose of Flash … If Flash site is being done in Flash there must be a good reason why it is done in Flash. Main reasons one site is good to go in Flash is - delivering of rich media, animation and effects, application needs… TommyTV is all about media, and application needs. Site delivers video from concerts and it’s desing incorporates 3D menu visuals.
2. Content… No metter if site is made in Flash, Ajax, HTML what makes it good is its content. And believe me TommyTV is all about great content, especially if you are a music lover. There is a band for every taste.
3. (UI) Design… it’s easy to get away from good UI design idea in Flash, too much of that or this takes you away. So keeping it clean, consistent and usefull for user is for respect. TommyTV have all of this. Resepct
4. Performance… Keeping a Flash in user acceptable performance is getting easier as Flash moves towards new player versions and better virtual machine. Even with that some sites go to far, or just don’t follow all the rules for better performance. TommyTV keeps it performance at high level, which for many video streaming sites and 3D sites isn’t a case.
If I remember few things more or you have your opinion please post a comment…
Anyway, enjoy TommyTV website, music and pleasure at one place…
It sounds like July meeting of FUG in Singapore will be even more interesting then in June. Basically it will be held out of Adobe offices at Tequilla office in Singapore.
Address is T\Junction Building, 5 Kadayanallur Street 069183
Seminar Room and meeting is held at 9th July at 19h. Entry is FREE but you should come at least half our before to register…
There will be two sessions as usuall In this meeting. Andrii Olefirenko will speak about Papervision 3D. FUG also invited Nico, the founder of FDT, Germany, to give us a remote presentation on the FDT IDE and how it can improve your development workflow.
So great stuff again, see you there I will post if ther will be online live video stream, if not I am sure FUG Singapore site will have video files to download.
As Javascript get capable more and more in competing with flash in transparency and transitions on web pages Flash is getting more and more serious about next step website interfaces. 3D is and will be a big part of new experiences on the web, and some of the latest site showcase it in great style.
Definitly one of the best 3D sites done in Flash is The Eco Zoo. It is surely great designed and very unique, with remarkable performance. Pop up books are so cool
Uniqlo hits it again with Uniqlo Try. Camera movements are really Uniqlo style, music and feeling at the site is great as always…
Third in series is Play > Smart, advertisement site for Benz-Mercedes mini car. Design of the website could be better as well as the texturing, but site definitly have a good catch with game mode and keeping score live.
Things are going in good direction, and I think web people will follow.
Alternativa platform released sources for public. You can use it without any fee if it’s for non commercial work. With Flash Player 10 release many new great stuff hits light of a day. Alternativa incorporates new FP10 features into engine, making it faster and looking nice, as it was already in demos. As it is clear from annoucement Alternativa team will push it hard as always…
Check out Carlos Ulloa interview. Carlos is amazing guy responsible for lot of good things in Flash community, probably most known and most interesting these days is Papervision 3D.
CGSociety takes spot on Image Metrics “Image Metrics has bridged the Uncanny Valley, developing a superior facial capture and animation system that creates
facial animation with far greater accuracy, as much as seven times faster than keyframing, and they only need video files and a facial rig and 3D model to get started. One of the latest production companies to take advantage of the new technology was Rockstar Games, producing faces for the ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ game scenes”.
Image Metrics has bridged the Uncanny Valley, developing a superior facial capture and animation system that creates
