In this article we’ll develop an image gallery in a 3d enviroment using Flash Cs4, ActionScript 3.0, Papervision 3D and Caurina Tween library.

After testing Papervision and the Augmented Reality in Flex I have tried it into Flash Cs4 too.
But some weeks ago I also tested Flirt particles system, a cool AS3 library to generate nice particles effects in Papervision 3D.

Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are merged with (or augmented by) virtual computer-generated imagery - creating a mixed reality.
The augmentation is conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements, like for example sports scores on TV during a match.

As often happens, i got the expiration to write this little post after an user request from an actionscript.it forum.
In few words, user asked how integrate a Google Search inside its Flex application to display the result always inside the flash app.
So I started to surf around the web to find a valid solution, and after founding many PHP solutions I found a cool AS3 library, developed by Boulevart.
This API provides a lot of classes to connect Flex (and Flash too) to Google services (Google Search, Translation, News, and so …

The company where I’m working now, GNStudio, released a new open source service, called Snippet Repo Browser.
This wiki will contain a lot of ActionScript, Flex, Flash, Air and php snippets that you can copy/paste in your applications.
Snippet could be also used as repository for your own scripts, infact you can make a new registration, write and share your code and display all your scripts using a similar url:
Snippet personal link:http://snippet.gnstudio.com/user/flagers (this will show all my scripts)
Snippet personal RSS:http://snippet.gnstudio.com/rss2/user/flagers

OTHER INTERESTING FEATURES:
- an Eclipse Plugin to see all snippets inside your Flex …

In this sample, full-commented, we’ll use the FlashPlayer 10 3D features to display a list of Video Thumbnails enabling the Mouse Click Event to enlarge them changing their z and rotationY properties.
We’ll use Caurina Tween to perform 3d animations, so download them and copy the caurina package in your project folder before test this sample (they are not included inside the source files)

In the market are existing a lot of Tween libraries to help Flash/Flex developers to build cool actionscript animation making their life easier, like TweenLite/ TweenMax or Caurina Tweener.
These libraries included cool stuff not provided from the default AS3 tween class like colors animation, animated drop, blur, shadow effect and much more.
So, in this post, i want to show you another tween engine, Tweensy, that provide a lot of cool bitmap and particle effects like smoke, fire and other “magical” stuff

I was playing with the Flex Google Map API and I think one of the coolest stuff is the Direction feature.
In few words, you can do a query like this: “from Milano to Torino” and you’ll get:
1) Distance
2) Trip duration
3) The complete travel displayed on Google Map
4) Many other usefull info (check GoogleMap website to get the API reference and other samples)
In this script I simulate a Store Locator, where user digits its city in a TextInput and at the same time he can selects a store from a List.
Each time user will …