Re: FLASH: Interfacing a 3D App with the Flash Synthetizer C Library

[Michael Penne]

>  That's

> not to say that

> you wouldn't get better results in autotracing after

> running the

> bitmap frames through some image-processing steps,

> like posterizing

> or otherwise reducing the number of colors.


I've been rendering from ElectricImage using the

built-in cartoon shaders to reduce the # colors, then

playing with the settings in Trace to get a pretty

nice, anime style. At this point, tracing each frame

takes the most time.


> There have been very few 3D renderers aimed at

> producing a wide

> variety of styles in a structured drawing format

> (Illustrator, Flash, 

> PICT drawing, Windows metafiles, etc.).


Been also looking at the cartoon shaders for Max

(Cartoon shop, etc.) but I've found that the built in

shaders in EI to be about as good. 

> 

> For fun, take a look at Viewpoint LiveArt at 

> <http://liveart.viewpoint.com/>.  It produces

> bitmaps, unfortunately,

> but a product like this could produce a wide variety

> of artistically

> styled, non-photorealistic renderings of 3D objects,

> and those bitmaps 

> might autotrace in interesting ways.  It looks like

> they're offering

> a $99 bundle to get Nichimen Nendo for Windows, an

> entry-level 3D modeler

> <http://www.nichimen.com/nendo/> along with LiveArt.


I'll check it out, thanks! While not Flash, I've also

been looking at the brilliant3d(Max) plug-in

(www.b3d.com), so far one of the best streaming 3d

formats I've found.


> I worked for Viewpoint until June 30.

> 

> - John




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