http://www.lamberta.org/blog Just Playin' Around. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:51:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Typographic demo combining physics and 3D. A creative variation on the Papervision3D/Box2D method I demonstrated here. http://www.lamberta.org/blog/joy-is-an-insufferable-strain-of-control/ In a recent project I wanted to incorporate some physics with a 3D environment. I decided on Box2DFlash (a port of Box2D), which is a great engine even if the syntax is a little awkward for an Actionscript 3 library. See the PaperBox2D demo, and the source is available (or right-click ... http://www.lamberta.org/blog/paperbox2d/ I brought my camera along for my daily constitutional and decided to take in some of the local signage. Gill Sans (aka "England's Helvetica") seems to be a popular typeface around Buffalo, which is fine but can be a bit tiresome. Kinda like a girl you had a fling with ... http://www.lamberta.org/blog/type-around-the-neighborhood/ Another Papervision3D demo, this time using VectorVision and the AS3Dmod libraries to manipulate a vector image. Source code is available. http://www.lamberta.org/blog/better-bend-than-break/ Hmm, I need to update this blog more. Well I just finished a little interactive demo using Actionscript 3, Papervision3D, and some models I created in Maya. I used a song by Ehma who in his infinite wisdom released the music on Jamendo. I suggest you to check it out, it's ... http://www.lamberta.org/blog/arrive/ The Papervision3D guys are running a nice little contest for the title of "PaperKing3D". I thought this would be good chance to show an example of some of the recent stuff I've been working on. Here's the demo, and here's the source code. Read on for more detail about the code ... http://www.lamberta.org/blog/see-invisible-demo/ There was a lively panel discussion at TypeCon 2008 on the issue of embedded fonts on the web [an overview can be found here]. A pretty controversial subject because there are 2 problems that need to be solved -- the web designer's desire to use typography, and the type designer's ... http://www.lamberta.org/blog/typecon-thoughts-on-web-fonts/ The main page has been updated -- click around, break things, and please send me any errors you find. There has been a "temporary" page up for the past week in a mad rush to have something done by TypeCon2008. It was functional and highlighted some of the skills I'm trying ... http://www.lamberta.org/blog/website-update/ Randy Pausch died today. He's known more widely as the professor who gave the "Last Lecture", but I highly recommend his "Time Management" talk -- it really has changed the way I look at my own work and practical advice for how to get things done. Though more importantly to me ... http://www.lamberta.org/blog/goodbye-randy/ [SWF]http://www.lamberta.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/as3flex.swf,450,350[/SWF] Using an Actionscript class within a Flex component can be a little tricky. The first error I ran into was: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. This was a result of using a stage reference within the class to set up boundaries. Since I no longer ... http://www.lamberta.org/blog/actionscript-inside-flex-component/