Smart Tween – easing C4D XPresso node
Since Rober Penner published the easing equations back in 2003, tweens have become very popular with flash workers and are taken for granted today. But it has been brought to my attention that they are...
View ArticlePyramidial multiscale – 86400px gigapixel image
Gigapixel images – it´s all about resolution and detail – one gigapixel equals a billion pixels so we are talking about tons of data. To be able to view such a picture, it hast to be sliced into tiny...
View ArticlePY4D Boids
Sebastian Rath´s PY4D is a new, alternative way to script with or to code plugins for Cinema4D – without COFFE or C++ – but in Python. The current beta (v0.9.0001) already makes a fine impression and...
View ArticleNeuronal net vs. traveling salesman
Did you ever need to figure out the shortest possible route between A and Z via B, C, D… ? If so, you have faced the “traveling salesman” problem and touched the field of theoretical computer science....
View ArticleSmart Normal Map goes Silverlight
Microsofts Silverlight has advanced to a level where it´s features and performance get contrastable with flash. It took mere minutes to port Smart Normal from PixelBender (Hydra) to Silverlights shader...
View ArticleStrange Attractor Finder and C4D/PY4D Particle Bench
Strange attractors are fractals that emerge at certain, sensitive parameters within the three-or more dimensional phase space. They are are researched since the early 70s and strongly related to the...
View ArticleGPU based Raytracing with Pixel Bender and After Effects
Since some years the idea of harnessing the power of modern graphic cards for 2D/3D applications has become more and more popular. Today we find GPU support in many CG applications like Photoshop or...
View ArticleRealtime SSAO with After Effects and Pixel Bender
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion or SSAO is a method to compute an approximated AO pass in real-time! This is done by using the depth information of a 3D object or scene that has been stored from the...
View ArticleFlash AIML TTS Chatbot –‘HAL9000’ using PHP and Festival
Ever dreamed of having a chat with you own personal AI? Well, we are still a bit behind Arthur C. Clarke´s dream of a self-aware AI like the HAL9000 but with AIML, Festival and Flash you can build your...
View ArticleSmartReLight – relighting with Pixel Bender
Relighting is an interesting method that is often used in video post production pipelines. Given the vector of its surface normal, it is possible to calculate the brightness of each pixel by a pseudo...
View ArticleSing like HAL with the Flash Player 10.1
Of course everybody remembers the scene from 2001 when Dave Bowman removes HAL´s memory banks. While being shut down HAL sings the song ‘daisy’ and his voice continuously pitches down while his ‘mind...
View ArticleThe Steve Jobs IPad Adobe Flashplayer HTML5 Video rant
The flame wars are on! CEOs, CTOs, platform evangelists and users are fighting the war of the worlds out there. It´s HTML5 vs. Flash, open vs. closed, H264 vs. OGG, desktop vs. mobile, truth vs. lie....
View ArticleSmartAA – reconstruct anti aliasing with Pixel Bender
About three decades ago, pixels where as big as toasters – and mostly green. Today we have millions of them to deal with, and the terms anti-/aliasing have become part of our daily live. Every time an...
View ArticleThe laughing man incident – defacing the web with OpenCV
In the series GITS:SAC, a hacker called “the laughing man” defaces himself and other persons by digitally placing an animated logo over their face. Now he is back and defaces the entire internet! Look...
View ArticleCruising the cosmos Sagan style – flash in outer space
In his TV series “Cosmos”, Carl Sagan travels the universe in a “ship of the imagination”. Uninfluenced by the laws of physics, “perfect as a snowflake, organic as a dandelion seed”, this vessel...
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