Random Fractals» Degrafa Maps http://randomfractals.com/blog Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:57:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Flex 3D Degrafa Earth Globe with 2D World Map Plane http://randomfractals.com/blog/2009/01/22/flex-3d-degrafa-earth-globe-with-2d-world-map-plane/ http://randomfractals.com/blog/2009/01/22/flex-3d-degrafa-earth-globe-with-2d-world-map-plane/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:53:57 +0000 Taras http://tarasnovak.com/blog/?p=658 That Degrafa Globe sparkled some interest from the Degrafa community, so I’ve decided to make quick updates the other day:

1) country regions are now interactive on the globe, just mouse over a country;

2) select a country with a mouse click;

3) there is a new 2D source world map plane with a slight X-axis rotation;

4) new map color scheme with different strokes and fill colors for the up, down and selected country states;

5) country tooltips display was added too, although it’s in French;

Click on the screenshot below to see it in action.

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V.2 will see some Away3D HoverCamera action to orbit the globe on mouse move and clicks, English tooltips for countries with ISO 3166 2-letter country code for region ids, and hopefully some open-source Degrafa world map and globe code to share.

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]]> http://randomfractals.com/blog/2009/01/22/flex-3d-degrafa-earth-globe-with-2d-world-map-plane/feed/ 2 Some cool 3D stuff and Degrafa Maps coming soon http://randomfractals.com/blog/2009/01/19/some-cool-3d-stuff-and-degrafa-maps-coming-soon/ http://randomfractals.com/blog/2009/01/19/some-cool-3d-stuff-and-degrafa-maps-coming-soon/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:48:27 +0000 Taras http://tarasnovak.com/blog/?p=606 I am going to put my multimedia experiments and updates to media players and flickr mashups on hold to repackage and publish some really cool 3D stuff and interactive maps I’ve done with OpenFlux, Away3d,  Tweener, and Degrafa.

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Flickorama 3D Update and Camera Work

Inspired by the PlexiGlass (OpenFlux 3D) example that opened easy to use Element Flow-like capabilities to Flex applications, I created Flickorama mashup last year to explore public photos from Flickr.

You can read about it in my outdated by now Flickorama update post or see an independent Flickorama review by Eric Miraglia on his Impressive Pixel blog.

A lot has changed in Flickorama since then. The added camera work with pan, tilt and zoom features provided by the tucked in Away3D engine, along with the added keyboard navigation make it a breeze now to flip through a stack of photos. I also added new Random view layout option and integrated my Flickr Flipbook, but that deserves a separate post.

Random3DView Demo and List3D

The only reason I am rambling about those updates because while digging through openflux plexiglass trunk code I’ve tried different layouts and cameras, ended up adding a couple of my own and making some tweaks to existing cameras and layouts for improved interaction and user experience.random3dviewthumb

Now, I have not seen any updates to the openflux library recently, and I am not sure about openflux roadmap or future development work, although I really like the separation of model, view, layout and 3D perspective that this library provides.

However, if you have an application that requires similar 3D list view display, I created a Random3DView demo that demonstrates the setup behind Flickorama 3D photo viewer. You can view Random3DView source code and the resulting camera and layout work in the updated Flickorama 3D mashup.

While working on Random3DView I realized that there must be many applications that could benefit from a simple List3D view component that taps into Away3d capabilities with OpenFlux Plexiglass or some other MVC framework overlayed, yet hidden and nicely encapsulated for simple List 3D data binding and rendering.

So, I’ve decided to do some refactoring on my Random3DView code and see if I can create a reusable List3D component that will make it very easy for anyone to put together a Flex application like Flickorama, backed by the powerful Away3D engine with some Tweener animation and different layouts, in minutes. Stay tuned for updates.

Degrafa Maps and Globe

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Some Degrafa world maps in various projections and mapping to 3D globe with Flex 3D are coming in the next few weeks too.

You can see some early demos of my Degrafa maps here. Some nights and weekends were spent on converting blank SVG maps of the world to make those interactive maps with selectable regions and countries in Flex. I am currently rethinking how those maps are configured and loaded.

You can see a production version of my Degrafa mapping technology used in a Beer Hunter application on destinationbeer.com.

Degrafa Globe alpha

This Flex 3D Earth demo and my poking in Away3D lately gave me some ideas on creating a rotating Degrafa Globe that I am planning to enable and get it to work with my degrafa map, zoom in, tooltips and all the 3d camera rotation and tilt effects.

So, check back for some demos and new open source List3D and Map3D components soon.

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