Flash – Orangutangy

Augmented Reality – Test 1

Posted on April 1, 2010 / Updated April 1, 2010 by Yukiko

I just got an augmented reality demo to work! It was really easy – Just one afternoon of work. To try it out you need: A webcam, a printout of this page. Click on this link and hold up your printout to your webcam in order to play with the demo.

I pretty much followed this video tutorial by The Flash Blog. It describes how to use the FLAR and Papervision 3d toolkits with Flex to detect a symbol in a video feed and map a 3D model to its plane. I just adapted his tutorial to Flash. (I’ll post my .FLA shortly)

Make Flash stage transparent

Posted on May 7, 2008 / Updated March 23, 2009 by Yukiko

Ok. Here’s a quick tip on how to make your stage transparent in flash. Go to publish settings: File > Publish Settings or Shift + F12 In the HTML Tab, Find the Window Mode setting and select Transparent Windowless from the drop down menu. Source: Adobe’s tech help site

Japanese Mouse Switcheroo

Posted on February 13, 2007 / Updated December 18, 2013 by Yukiko

While surfing some of my webcomics, I found a link to a Japanese web award page ( I think ). What was cool about it was the use of flash to change to mouse pointer into well… a huge foam pointer/float carried around by a bunch of guys. It’s hilarious and worth a minute to …

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