Mrinal Wadhwa is a software developer form Bangalore, India. His interests include Rich Internet Applications and Enterprise Software. These days he's working with a small team trying to bootstrap a software as a service product startup
I gave a talk about Augmenting Reality at Devcamp Bangalore this Saturday. In the talk I did some live coding to show how you can use Saqoosha’s FLARToolkit AS3 library to add 3D objects to a webcam video in real-time … here’s a video recording of the application we created during the session … it adds a cow to reality .. read more
I love 3D in Flash, but till now I’d never been very happy with the quality of text rendering in my Papervision3D projects. Papervision is a bitmap based 3D engine and because of that not very good at rendering text.
Yesterday, I found VectorVision, which is an extension of Paperviosn3D that enables rendering vectors inside of Papervision3D. The authors Mark Barcinski & Adrien Jeanjean, have ported some of the work Mathieu Badimon did for his vector based 3D engine, Five3D, to enable vector fonts inside of Papervision. And to top that they added support for rendering any SVG in Papervision .. super cool !!
Here’s a quick example I cooked up, notice the crisp font ..
Inspired by Yahoo’s NewsGlobe I decided to create my own 3d earth .. I used Papervision3d and NASA’s Blue Marble images to build it.
Right now it doesn’t do much, just rotates, but I plan on adding some more functionality later.
I was at DevCamp yesterday and it was awesome, I learned a little bit about a lot of interesting topics Semantic Web, microformats, wordpress plugin development, Mozilla XULRunner, Mozilla Prism, GP2X, PIPS etc.. Abdul’s presentation on AIR was very nice as well.
I presented a lightning talk titled “3D on the web with Papervision3D” … read more
Hundreds of Flex based Rich Internet Applications came to life in 2007 … here are 10 applications that I liked most, these are the ones that made me wish I was involved in building them … I’m sure there were apps that made you wish the same, so do share your own list … here’s mine ..
