Amazing Flash thing.

Tony pointed me to this thing. Amazing use of flash for two and three D graphics. He also made an excellent point about the interface for the creation of new “avatars” and how simple it is, and how able one would be to make their own crazy avatar. You can see one i created below. The movements are pre-programmed. Check out the number of other avatars in the audience, and the real-time blur that’s been used. Very impressive use of flash. Take the time to try out the interface for creating your own avatar too - its equally impressive. Wonder tech and UI design.

UPDATE Ok, after the Oh-my-god factor passes, you can see the steps that have been taken to reduce the load on the flash player. All the background avatars are actually in a single bitmap, which is then “played” like a movie clip. Well, each “group” of background avatars, anyway. So there is only the “main” avatar and the 5 or so “infield” avatars which are truly being manipulated in 3d. This doesn’t really take away from the coolness factor of it, but it does keep my brain from leaking out - i was dumbfounded as to how he had managed to get so many 3d poly’s on screen at once.