Kai Koenig invited me to Webinale, the holistic web conference in Berlin. He wanted me to present innovative projects developed with the Adobe Flash Platform. It’s a quite easy task, as I believe that innovation is in the DNA of Flash. I also believe that the strength of Flash is its community of crazy developers, who publish more and more incredible experiments. Here are the slides of my presentation, a video of the projects I’ve showcased, and the links to the public demos.
Innovation and the Adobe Flash Platform
After a short introduction on the benefits of Rich Internet Applications developed with Flex, I started to enumerate some advanced technical projects. One of the primary needs in the RIA industry is “printing”. Rather than use a server-side solution, such as LiveCycle ES2, the community developed a client-side library to generate PDF on the fly. AlivePDF is open source and the Contrast-A AIR application invokes this library to generate PDF files on your desktop.
Then I introduced the “Out of the box” concept. Too many web applications are contained in a box. Basically, we use windows. Thibault Imbert and I developed a prototype two years ago to leverage the Chrome-less features of AIR. You can watch the application, and all my demos, in this video :
Innovation and the Adobe Flash Platform from michael chaize on Vimeo.
Then, the BIG stuff !!!
Motion detection: click here to download my AIR sample and the source code
Face recognition: http://play.blog2t.net/files/black-or-white/
Augmented Reality et ma boule de feu: AIR app and the source code
Voice gesture recognition: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=1151
Intel8080 CPU emulation: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=622
Street Fighter CPU emulation: http://www.dotemu.com/en/sf2
Alchemy C++ 2D Engine: http://www.sideroller.com/wck/
Pixel Bender 3D effects: http://blog.yoz.sk/2010/05/pixel-bender-displacement-map-fakes-3d-effect/
Minko 3D: http://demo.minko.in/2
Sound generation: http://blog.jactionscripters.com/2010/04/26/as3flash10-software-synthesizer-sion-goes-to-version-0-6/
I hope this presentation will open eyes and minds on what Flash really is. It’s not just about running animations or playing videos, it’s also a powerful platform that provides a lot of room for innovation. Flash drives innovation on the web (and has for 15 years), and innovation drives Flash. Thanks Kai for giving me the opportunity to showcase these amazing projects, and thanks to the Berlin Flex User Group (http://flex-labs.de/) for the warm welcome.
Anne K. Petterøe
Christophe Coenraets
Greg Wilson
James Ward
Excellent post
Thank you monsieur. I appreciate. Bouliiiiiiiiii !
Inspiring post
Good source of Information on Flash Platform.
Thanks a lot for sharing this valuable stuffs.
If possible could you please share that broken Augmented Reality Link ??
Etrange, la vidéo ne s’affiche pas, dans le flahs debug j’ai des erreurs de sécurity sandbox ?!?
Merci pour le post et longue vie au flash
Finalement après 4 chargements, ça passe ….. étrange
Awesome video, could you upload it to youtube? would love to share it around, but Vimeo isn’t supported in a lot of forums I visit (youtube is)
J’adore!!
Merci pour ces démos!
Ca me manque de plus faire de flex dans mon taf…(et pas souvent le temps sinon) :’(
Mais je continue de suivre tout ca!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2l1KM3Q3F4
done