A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a course at the Anderson Ranch Art’s Center in Snowmass Colorado. The course I was there too take was named Dynamic Abstraction and the teacher was Josuha Davis. While there we played around, building a lot of as3 classes with the goal of using them together with flash to create a printed piece of artwork at the end of the week.

I have been playing around with the FLARToolkit for a week or so now trying to figure out the best settings and detection methods to work with a few .DAE models (you can see my first FLAR experiment a few post back). While I have been picking through the soucre code the FLARMultipleMarkerDetector class kept catching my eye.

There have been a few projects in the past year or so that I have worked on where there has been the need to pull in a feed of information from Flickr to be used. Each time I would begin the process by looking back at a previous project and copying over a bunch of code into the document class of what I was working on.

I’ve been working on another little experiment with FLARToolkit/Papervision, but this time the model being used contains animations embedded with in the .DAE file. My first thoughts were to go directly for the yourdae.play(); method and this would have worked if my model only had a single animation, but it was rigged with several so it turned out to be a mess.

Looking around the net lately, I had been seeing quite a few examples of something new being done with flash. Augmented Reality. It turns out that saqoosha had ported over a version of NyARToolkit from the java framework to work with as3.