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With all this augmented reality hype I decided to try it out by doing an experimental project. What I ended up building is was 6 3D cubes animated to music following the AR (Augmented Reality) marker in 3D world. You can view the project here but you will need to print out the marker (or go to http://maxtherocket.com/marker.png on your iPhone) and you also need a webcam. So once you print out the marker (cut out the marker so the paper doesn’t bend as much) point your webcam on the marker and launch the project. The music will start playing once the application can recognize the marker and the cubes will dance around in the 3D world.

For this project I’ve used the following AS3 libraries:
FLAR Toolkit
FLAR Manager
Papervision 3D

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I had to fake the ball reflections by making a enviromental map with the reflection and moving the dummy light used for the enviromental map. I did the background of the website in 3Ds Max, I got the idea from Eagle Eye movie, the room where the main computer was:

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I coded the whole game in AS3. I used Papervision3D for the spinning beer caps, just for the spinning animation. I had to make my own “3d engine” for sizing down the beer caps when they “fly away” from you. I used Remoting to take care of the Leaderboard.

1. set doubleClickEnabled to true


button.doubleClickEnabled = true;
button.addEventListener( MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK, doubleClickHandler );


2. You must set the doubleClickEnabled to any MovieClips inside the Button/MovieClip listening for the double click event. If the MovieClip/Button contains only shapes or text that’s fine, the double click will work without the second step.

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This is another flash site I made for an annual all ages party hosted by 4Devents.ca in 2006. This site was pretty simple. Probably, the most complicated part was the “Venue” section, I had to load images dynamically from the server. Of course this task is trivial for me right now but at that time I had to learn how to do it for the first time. The “Location” section features dragable map area thingy, this feature was challenging for me at that time, but I love challenges.

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This was the first full flash site I did for 4D. The year was 2005, I was 18 years old at that time. I was in first year in college, doing Digital Media Technical Production at Seneca @ York. This UNITY party was a big step for 4D as we had to fill up the entire Guvernment/Koolhaus complex, that’s about 5000 people that we had to bring on that night so the party is not a flop.  I had to go all out for this site, do something that’s never been done before. We were well ahead of our competitors with our web presence. We had the best website, we had videos from our events, picture gallery from each party we did and it was always updated, unlike our competitor’s web sites… Well I was in charge of the website so it had to be better than the rest! No other company did flash websites for their parties, so I though if i do it we would set a new standard.

We spent a lot of money on flyers for this party.  We had a custom dye cut for the flyer, check out the flyer here. It was the coolest flyer the all ages scene in Toronto has ever seen. I wanted to make the website look like the flyer. I got the working files from the company that designed the flyer. I used some artwork from the flyer, added some of my own and pieced together a very cool layout. I really wanted to show the size and the layout of this massive venue so I took the building blueprints from the Guvernment website, outlines them in illustrator and made a pretty-looking map of the whole building, 2 floors. The building layout took me quite a bit of time, but it turned out good at the end, I actually used it for a school project. I did this all the time, I tried to turn school projects into something useful. At that time, Flash didn’t let you import AI files as smoothly as it does now, Flash was still a Macromedia product at the time. I had to export all the AI files as SWFs and import them into Flash. It was a pain in the ass, thank god Adobe bought Macromedia!

I made 2 different wallpapers available for download. I had to make different sized for the wallpapers, it was just a bit of sizing and cropping nothing hard. I’m not sure how many kids actually downloaded and used these wallpapers, I didn’t track these sort of things back then. One of the wallpapers had a picture from Koolhaus at one of their annual 19+ all access sketchy parties, I think Armin Van Buren was playing when I took the shot with my Sony cybershot…lol It came out really nice.

The video commercial I made myself. I got alot of the footage from Labour of Love, Guvernments all-access 19+ party on Labour day weekend, we just went in, still underage, and recorded each room with my Panasonic camcorder. Got our MC to do the voice over and the sound track, pulled some motion graphics out of my ass and it turned out to be a cool video. I’m still proud of that video to this day. I used Sony Vegas for the whole thing, I know, I know I should have used some real production software, but it did the job.