{"id":115,"date":"2013-02-16T19:51:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T19:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2013-12-02T22:42:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T22:42:28","slug":"my-flash-navigation-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/2013\/my-flash-navigation-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"My Flash Navigation Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a lot of time experimenting before I finally published the <a title=\"Confidant Communications\" href=\"http:\/\/confidant.ca\">current version of my website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was excited about using interactive 3D worlds as a basis of information discovery. I experimented with simple scenes in Papervision3D like below, where the user can drag objects around. As you can see, the performance was really bad even with low-res images. Since that time Flash 3D engines such as Away3D have started using Stage3D to their advantage, so I imagine they would perform better than this one.<\/p>\n<p>[swfobject]120[\/swfobject]<\/p>\n<p>Another idea I had was using face tracking as a navigation method. Again, this didn&#8217;t perform as well as I wanted and the file size was too large to get a nicely detailed tree. Allow Flash to access your camera to see how it works.<\/p>\n<p>[swfobject]116[\/swfobject]<\/p>\n<p>Here is the interface I almost used in the end, but then abandoned when I decided to retrofit the site to use my branded-wood-disc logo. I like that no actual buttons are used, but it maybe wasn&#8217;t 100% intuitive.<\/p>\n<p>[swfobject]118[\/swfobject]<\/p>\n<p>These are already a few years old now (c. 2009) and I&#8217;m still not certain that HTML5 could do face tracking or shape tweening the same way I&#8217;ve done here, and have it useable in the majority of browsers. Some day it will, but kudos to Flash to giving this to us so early on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a lot of time experimenting before I finally published the current version of my website. I was excited about using interactive 3D worlds as a basis of information discovery. I experimented with simple scenes in Papervision3D like below, where the user can drag objects around. As you can see, the performance was really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/2013\/my-flash-navigation-experiments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Flash Navigation Experiments<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[31,27,25],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-development","tag-flash","tag-user-interface","tag-website"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28GE6-1R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}