I know it’s been a really long time I haven’t done anything on this blog, but later is better than never, right?

In fact, I haven’t written anything because I’ve been really busy at work (I’m working for Megalo(s))  with huge and interesting projects and I’m teaching AS3 at a fabulous multimedia french school : Gobelins (recently renamed CCI Formation).

I led the flash development of fullflash websites,  most revelants are :

De Dietrich HouseHold appliance(team of 3 developers)

PureDKNY fragrances Teaser (team of 2 developers) : water your plant and it grows, share your plant and it gets flowers.

Pure DKNY fragrances Reveal (team of 2 developers)

Let’s bring this blog back to life, so in the next post I’ll give my Gobelins slides, talk about FITC in Amsterdam, talk about ant Task…

Google has just released his new Mobile OS called Android, and we can already see websites, magazines and mobile phones holders comparing Android to the iPhone OS.
What I can see (on the web, or just by speaking with friends) is a lot of disappointment : Android OS isn’t the iPhone OS killer.

Actually, Apple did a tremendous work with iPhone OS. It’s quick, reactive, ergonomic, easy to use… It’s hard to a new system (even designed by Google) to beat Apple.

Ok, it’s not as good as iPhone OS but let’s discuss some points :

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A really nice game found on gamereclaim website : AstroFlyer

You drive a spaceship in a vector environment.  There’s not more to say, just try it!

Mr Doob and Román Cortés released an impressive as3 demo of a voxel head. It is a bit heavy (500Kbits), but rendering is sharp and smooth.

Voxel is a “volume element, representing a value on a regular grid in three dimensional space” (Wikipedia).
Voxel is usually used to display landscape or 3d medical data.

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The promising and impressive russian 3D engine is available to download at this adress http://alternativaplatform.com/en/alternativa3d/. Usage is free of charge for personal non profit and you must register to download the swc files.

Demos (flash player 10):

API Documentation:
http://help.alternativaplatform.com/en/client/package-summary.html

And tutorials:
http://docs.alternativaplatform.com/dashboard.action, but still written in russian for the moment. It doesn’t matter : AS3 language is international!

Let’s try this engine and compare it with Papervision and Sandy 3D (which are open-source).