A colleague showed how he used the FlickR API to one of his projects. So I got interested in building something of my own.

In the end I wanted to make a mozaïk based on 1 photo a user supplies. This mozaïk is then build up from pictures taken from FlickR. Like that effect on the movieposter for the Truman Show.

This is how far I got. I shall definatly pick up this project again in the future.

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/03_mozaik/Main.html

Date: march-2009

A certain project was coming up at work which might had to make use of Papervision. We all never got into Papervision before, so I started doing some initial research. This is the last project that came out of that.

UR: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/papervision_shooter/index.html

Date: January-2009

My graduation thesis is all about Augmented Reality, so naturally I'm exploring the posibilities of flash and AR. And surprisingly, it's quite easy if you got a basic understanding of papervision and AS3.

To make something cool and innovative, however, requires a bit more creativity.

Here's my first attempt, it does require a webcam though. And ideally you need to print this marker. But I guess you could also point your cam at the monitor.

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/05_AR/index.html

Date: 2009

My first experiment with this aren't really worth mentioning, so I combine it with a later revision.

I once saw an animation which created this really cool Pollock-like painting using the draw-class and the bitmap-class. (was something like this: http://stamen.com/projects/splatter). This started a project to create something similar.

For my first projects I wanted it to be something that could run the whole day, like a screensaver or something.

I came up with this one first.

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/04_pollock/Main.html

And later I combined it with the sound spectrum thingy from a few years back:

URL:  http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/06_equalizer/spectrum3.html

Date: January-March-2009

My first complete experiment with papervision.

I tried to come up with something that could in the end be used as a portfolio or something. But when I started doing papervision projects with more content I found out it becomes performance heavy really fast.

In this experiment, there are 8 buttons in the top-right corner. The top 4 tweens the camera (I used caurina tweener  f or that!), the lower 4 tweens an object around.

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/07_papervision/3d-plane-game.html

Date: January-2009

This small project was based on a visual effect I once saw. The concept with this is that different pages could animate in as if a piece of paper was folded or lifted up.

After I got the first effect my attention went to creating a dynamic menu and a floating cursor effect.

Never realy got myself to continue this project...

Note: it may seem as an empty white page, but just click anywhere to initialize the page.

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/01_mainmenuanimatie/Main.html

Date: January-2009

Never made a real game before, and I wanted to test out some conventions and coding techniques. I came up with a wow-themed game (I played a LOT of wow at that time)...

Graphics: World of Warcraft

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/09_shootergame/shooter.html

Date: forgot, probably 2007

My first actual attempt with playing with the SoundMixer.computeSpectrum() class of AS3.

I did some playing around with how to use the numbers that came out of it. I intended it to be something small like a widget so it could be put in a profilesite or a blogpost or something...

Song: Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (plus like... 10% pitch)

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/06_equalizer/spectrum.html

Date: 2007