Wow, these guys know how to make use of Flickr API. Here’s a 3D Tiltviewer that let’s you hop different Flickr pictures in 3D!

TiltViewer allows you to browse Flickr’s most interesting images in a 3D space. Images are pulled from Flickr’s Interestingness list.

TiltViewer was built using Away3D, a branch of Papervision. Currently Away3D provides better handling of mouse events for nested 3D Objects. One limitation of Away3D is that there is no access to a 3D object’s sprite, so you can’t apply filter or alpha effects. I’m guessing that soon these features will be added to both engines.

Does a 3D UI give more functionality than the equivalent 2D interface? No, but its certainly a lot cooler! Part of the motivation to build this was to explore ways to make 3D interfaces simple and intuitive.

Being able to load Flickr images into a 3D engine was recently made possible when Flickr added crossdomain XMLs to it’s image servers. Thanks Flickr!

via airtightinteractive

Tags: 2d_interface, 3d_engine, 3d_interfaces, 3d_object, 3d_space, api, Computer, Consumer, Cool, Design, flickr, Graphics, image_servers, motivation, mouse_events, photography, space_images, sprite, xmls

This entry was posted on Monday, January 21st, 2008 at 9:37 pm and is filed under Computer, Consumer, Cool, Design, Graphics, photography.
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