I just returned from teaching the Papervision3D workshop in Sweden; it was an awesome group and good fun! For all those who attended : Thank you very much for the good and fun workshop, you where an awesome group! Also many thanks for Johan and Marcus from the local usergroup for helping out with the event!

This week Saturday I’ll be heading off to Chicago to be part of the FITC Chicago event. I’m looking forward to doing my Flash 2D & 3D effects session as well as a 1 day workshop on Papervision3D. If you haven’t registered yet, make sure you do so as there are still some tickets left, but they are going fast!

Register here for the RMI Papervision3D 2.0 workshop Chicago.

Sorry for the silence on this blog lately, personal matters take priority and as such it will be more quiet here over the coming months. But expect a nice blog on some exiting news here tomorrow. Looking forward to see any of you attending FITC Chicago.

And then some more exiting news; FITC Seoul is happening and I am lucky enough to be invited to come over and speak amongst these great names ; Joshua Davis, Erik Natzke, Kyle Cooper, Richard Galvan, Marcos Weskamp, and Euna Seoul. With such an awesome line up, I’m sure this will surely be a success and a opportunity for us to reach out to the korean / asian community! Looking forward to see any of you there!

“Pixel Bender” ? Really ?

[Fill in my excuse for not posting in such a long time]. There’s so much to tell, hence the weird title. Let’s start of with todays news; Adobe renames Hydra to Pixel Bender. They actually did it….now…it might be me…but wasn’t Hydra a way cooler name then “Pixel Bender” ? At least we’ll be able to make Bender references all the time now…adding to nerd-status. The cool thing ? Bender’s brain is a MOS6502 … the same cpu which for instance, also powered the best machine of all times.

Puppet Interview

So, moving on from that news. Over the last months I’ve done several interviews. I was reluctant to post them, but come to think of it, why ? You are reading this page so you’re at least interested in what I have to say. The best interview as of yet was with Gideon, one of the worlds best designers. In all honesty, “jet-lagged” as I was, I wasn’t at my best, so these interviews might entertain you more; Joshua Davis, Hugh Elliot, Moock&Gmunk, Seb-Lee Delisle.

FITC & rePhlex and Flash Player 10

Of course, all of this was recorded at the FITC Toronto 2008 conference. First off all, thanks to the FITC Organisation…you guys did an awesome job. The conference had an excellent vibe … (except for that annoying drunk dude at the front door on Tuesday…you know who you are), and I had a great time hanging with you all. I did a sold-out workshop on day 1, day 2 a panel, with Adobe’s Justin, Richard, Lee, Joa from Hobnox and Mr. Paperworld: Trevor.

On day 3 I did my session…I was shocked to find the room literally packed with people….and was somewhat nervous throughout some moments in my session, but as it seems by the feedback, people really enjoyed it. The reviews I found in my incoming links are at least very positive.During this session I also got to talk about rePhlex again, my new toy project. rePhlex is meant to be a lightweight, realtime image processing and syncing/eventing library for site/example and demo purposes. It’s been overgoing some heavy changes and refactoring…you’ll all just have to wait a bit more.

Another thing I really enjoyed doing in my session was that I was allowed to show some hydra Pixel Bender running inside Flash Player 10. Yes….you missed a sneak of Flash Player 10′s awesome power.

On day 4 of the conference I had a taped conversation with Keith Peters, which, next to the obligatory joke he made at my cost, to get back at me for sleeping a bit to long, we both hoped won’t bore you too much…you put to actionscript / math / graphic nerds on a couch…what do you think happens ?

I saw some sessions myself, but was really unlucky with my taste vs the schedule. Things I can quickly remember seeing; Seb-Lee Delisle, Mario Klingemann, Keith Peters, Robert Hodgin, Erik Natzke and many others. Robert’s session (the last of the conference) absolutely blew me away. And I do love Radiohead!

So, that would wrap up FITC Toronto (and Amsterdam too).

Upcoming Conferences

I’m looking forward to speak at this months Multimania. In June there’s going to be FITC Chicago…later on this year many more, amongst which for instance; Singularity 08. I’m really unlucky to have to miss out on this years FlashBelt…..hope you all have a good time there anyway.

Goodbye Earthmine ! Hello new works ?

As some of you, attending one of my sessions or workshops earlier this year might know, most of my commercially available time went to the Earthmine project. That work ended for me last week and after working on one project for such an extended period of time (7 months+) and some rest, I’m now really looking forward too and open for new jobs and work..I’m not sure what I’ll do yet and am still contemplating on what I really want to do as the “next” thing. In the mean time I’ll be working on smaller freelance jobs. And if you have something you’d like me to work on….ping me.

Playing with Hydra and image algorithms

Another post coming up today will explain some more. With my work on rePhlex and Hydra, I’m having a blast doing image manipulation algorithms….one of my experiments was image dithering and half-toning…with as a result a new open source project. More on that in my next post…which will appear on the all new and revamped AXNA / Adobe Feeds! Welcome back !

Yes! April is coming up quickly and that means amongst others 1 awesome event, FITC Toronto. I’m excited to be speaking at this event alongside other speakers like GMUNK, Joa Ebert, Andre Michelle, Erik Natzke, Patrick Matte, Ivan Todorov, James Paterson, Grant Skinner, Joshua Davis, Thijs Thiemstra, Keith Peters, Evan Roth, Niko Stumpo, Mario Klingemann and many more!

I’m really looking forward to do my 3D and 2D effects session and hope to see you there!
Also, I will be giving a one day workshop on Papervision3D, in front of the event; as one of the dev’s of the API I can assure this is will be one day of great fun, knowledge and learnings! Make sure you register in time, these things tend to sell out fast.

FITC was kind enought to pass me a special 10% discount code for the event in Toronto; using the code unitzeroone you will be given that discount.

You’re not sure yet ? Well, check out these videos on FITC Amsterdam and be convinced!

This demo / source file is one which was used during the Papervision3D Workshop in Amsterdam, during the fantastic FITC Amsterdam 2008 event. These are the modified final sources for the example I did at the end of the day. Although quite simple, I think they are very useful at illustrating on how to use shaders. Download the sources here.

Over the last months I spent alot of my time developing with and on Papervision3D. Most notably alot of the new features of Papervision3D 2.0 have been part of daily work and development. Now I have yet to see someone uncover all of the posibilities with the current alpha, next to people as mr.doob and zeropointnine (and many more, yes).

It’s incredibly inspiring to me to see that the goals and purposes I personally had intended with the Papervision3D 2.0 source code is being picked up this well. Don’t get me wrong, there’s still alot to do…but in essence it seems to work for people ! I guess seeing your work being put to use by others in ways you wouldn’t or would’ve expected is a big part of the pay-off in OpenSource development. It’s both educational and inspirational to see how people are using the architecture.

(As a side note…in the FITC Amsterdam video on Lee Brimelow’s blog I’m noted as aformentioned zeropointnine…which is wrong….obviously, I’m that other three word number like dude….UnitZeroOne…Lee….)

Anyway, I stumbled upon note.x when I got my traffic report. It’s all in Japanese but I’m really astounded by the quality of code and work. It’s a very nice blog indeed, go and check it out.

Some other very good resources on pv3d 2.0 include : pv3d.org, papervision2.com, actionscript architect and of course fellow team member Andy Zupko.