the first version of this demo is lost to time. but i eventually made a cooler one. the coverflow is a popular ui/ux element allowing you to navigate images in 3d space. i made an mp3 player version that incorporates the spikey ball effect.

view the demo / checkout the code

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my latest papervision3d project was a revamp of the video cube. this time around the rotation of the cube is static, not mouse driven, also i added some new filtering, and a different method of using a video texture that doesn’t throw an error message. the flv is from the best cartoon ever lupin the 3rd. this episode is called "buns, guns, and fun in the sun" 

and here's the code:

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here a nice little one liner. this function returns a random number between a user supplied range.

function randomizer (low:Number, high:Number):Number {
   return Math.floor(low + (Math.random() * (high-low)));
}

example useage, will return a number between 5 - 50.

var x:Number = randomizer(5, 50);

today john grden of rockonflash.com has release his new papervision3D component.
this plugin for the flash cs3 ide allows you to...

• render and edit your 3d objects in Flash IDE at design time!
• it supports multiple material types
• you can create scenes and cameras
• management of resizing / centering of a papervision3D scene
• dynamic masking to constrain the viewable area to set bounds
• full api and access to scene, camera, and objects to code around
• automatically loads materials via collada file
• modification of rotation, camera zoom, camera focus, cameraZ

Read: papervision3d component for adobe flash cs3 »