Exploring the 3rd Dimension with Papervision3D

I’ve been playing with Papervision3D in my spare time these past few days and its been a lot of fun… I’ve been going through the documentation and some of the tutorials on the wiki and I have started to build an app that will help me learn.

My intention is to see how can I create some extraordinary user experiences with Papervision3d, Flex and AIR. The new set of Interactive classes introduced in Papervision present some very interesting opportunities to that respect. The first 3D application that I am going to build is a 3D Art Gallery, this will be like a room that you can walk through to see Art on the walls. The panorama example that comes with Papervision helped me create a Room which you can see here. This is an empty room that will make my Art Gallery, move around your mouse to take a look around the room, you can view the source by right clicking on the app. I have modified the panorama example to make it a UIComponent as my main intention is to operate within the Flex Framework. This is a very un-refined example and I will refine it as I go along building the app.

I have also downloaded Blender and at first look it was quite intimidating, but after I went through the video tutorials on their site things have started to make some sense, although its obvious that this tool will take quite some amount of time for me to learn still is seems to have awesome possibilities.

Venturing into the 3rd dimension : 3D Art Gallery