transmote speaks…

been getting started on a new FLARToolkit app, and i’ve been finding myself needing more tools…hence the rapid-fire releases the last couple days.

to make things simpler to update in the future, i moved FLARManager onto svn, and created a separate page for it. you can find all the details, and the source, here:

http://words.transmote.com/wp/flarmanager/

major changes in v0.3 include:

packaged things up proper. was getting to be a respectable pile of classes, so i tidied things up a bit.

added FLARProxy.as. FLARProxy provides a way to test FLARToolkit applications with a mouse and keyboard, instead of using FLARCameraSource or FLARLoaderSource.

finally found some time to brush up recent changes to FLARManager. new bits include:
 

Flash Player 10 3D example now works! sorta. translation is off a bit in some areas of the screen (not sure why…?) but converting a FLARToolkit matrix to a FP10 3D matrix seems to be working properly.

camera output mirroring can be toggled in FLARCameraSource; set to true by default. this flips the camera image horizontally so that it appears like a mirror to the user.

FLARCameraSource now supports non-4:3 aspect ratios.

a few minor bug fixes (including one that caused REMOVED events to not fire properly), and a few other code cleanups.

 
download here:

FLARManager v0.2

FLARManager by Eric Socolofsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License; please provide attribution to the author in any projects using this source.
 

read this post for general info on FLARManager.

elastotron will be shown LARGE at the Great Wall Of Oakland on friday, april 3rd, 2009.
please stop by, and join me after at Luka’s Taproom!

the Great Wall is an accompaniment to the monthly Art Murmur in oakland, so there will be plenty of other things happening in the area on the same night.

where: just west of grand and broadway, downtown oakland.
it’s a quick four blocks up broadway from the 19th st BART stop.

when: 7:30 – 10pm, afterparty at Luka’s

what: here’s a (low-res) sneak preview…

other artists showing tentatively include:
Lincoln Else – Learning to Fly
Colin Blackshear – Yosemite
Daniel Conrad – Afternoon of the Chimeras
Miguel Arzabe – John Muir TXT Msgs
Project Bandaloop – Montana

a bug in flash player 9 i came across today while trying to get a swf to unload completely:

https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1770

if you have a reference to Keyboard or Capabilities (or, probably, a number of other native Classes as well) in an event handler, it will loiter as a pair of Class and Object references when the enclosing swf is unloaded via Loader.unload().
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the people want a Flash Player 9 version.
here it is:

FLARManager v0.1, FP9

FLARManager by Eric Socolofsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
 

i commented out all the Vector references and replaced with Arrays. since you can see the Vector stuff, commented out, you can take this opportunity to see what lies in store for you with FP10 — typed arrays, goodie!

i also changed the project to target FP9, so you should be good to go with a File>Import>Flex Project.

also removed the FP10 3D example (it wasn’t working yet anyway. but will be soon…)

saqoosha just started a FLARToolkit forum on google groups:

http://groups.google.com/group/flartoolkit-userz

hopefully a better place to discuss problems and successes than in the long comment threads on mikko’s and saqoosha’s blogs…

macaroons and cubes, yum.

i’ve been getting my hands into fiducial tracking at work over the last few months, and successfully implemented reacTIVision for an exhibit. amazing software, easy to use right out of the box, and very fast and accurate. (thanks martin & co!)

when i came across the GE augmented reality thingy, i realized that that kind of experience can finally happen online. i took a look at FLARToolkit, and was simultaneously excited and stymied — so much potential, but tricky to use and understand.

i came across Mikko Haapoja’s excellent starter tutorial and got a much better understanding of the system. after a bit more digging, i decided to try to make FLARToolkit as accessible as reacTIVision.

a couple weeks later, i finally have a small framework put together that makes steps in this direction. behold, FLARManager v0.1.

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