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LG WOW is the latest website we developed at colmeia featuring Papervision3D, webcam interactivity, Flash Media Server streaming, and integration with a Django application using remoting (PyAMF). It is a product showcase for LG Electronics.

To enter the website, choose between webcam and keyboard modes. After the countdown, shout “wow” to the camera (or simply type it if you chose keyboard mode) and 3D particles will explode according to your voice loudness. The camera feed will be recorded to Flash Media Server, but it will only be published if you choose to do so later.

Navigate the website through the floating objects or the menu (at the top).
Check the Gallery (to watch other people’s reactions) and the Stats section too.

This website doesn’t push the boundaries of Flash and PV3D (we just used Planes with MovieMaterials), but I think we were still able to build something unique for the client.

Concept and product pages by Sinc (advertising agency).
PV3D design and development by Colmeia:

• Design: Caio Sartori, Gustavo Sonoda.
• Backend development: Eduardo Silva, Arthur Lima.
• Flash development: Flavio Ensiki, Eduardo Omine, Edgar Akiyama.

Nacionale is the online portfolio of Brazilian designer/illustrator Doug Alves. It’s a simple yet effective website that I built with AS3. He’s developing an interesting illustration style, go check it out.

Tantalus Quest is a game / installation that I developed at colmeia for FILE 2008, Brazil’s main electronic arts festival.

Game designer Fabiano Onça conceived the game, in which people must fill geometric shapes with their own silhouettes (as captured by webcams hanging from the ceiling):

Tantalus Quest at FILE 2008 from eduardo omine on Vimeo.

Software was built with OpenFrameworks, which is to C++ what Processing is to Java. A prototype was built with Flash (AS3), but it was slow — reading pixel values (BitmapData.getPixel) can be processor-heavy. Thanks to OpenFrameworks, porting the AS3 code to C++ was quite easy.

The application is very simple: the images captured by the cameras are brightened, blurred and thresholded, resulting in black blobs. The amount of blob pixels inside the geometric shape count as positive points and the pixels outside the geometric shape count as negative points.

This was my first project with computer art in a physical space — it’s something that I should explore further in my personal projects.

More pictures at Flickr.

Digas Arquitetura is an architecture office based in São Paulo, run by former water polo player Diogo Freitas.

His work (especially with residential projects) has a strong influence of modernism and minimalism; to bring those aesthetics to his website I picked a few fonts of the Elementar pixel type family designed by Gustavo Ferreira.

This website, published in March 2008, also features deep-linking and browser history support, thanks to the open-source library SWFAddress.

Rumba is a web agency based in São Paulo. The website was designed by Rumba designer Rafael Nadai and developed by me in January 2008.