You’ll need the Incubator version of the Flash Player that supports Molehill to view this swf.
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I started working on this class to create a torus out of objects back with Away3D 3.6. But it was pretty chunky when trying to animate that many objects around. With 4.0 it is smooth and fast.
I’ll share the code for this torus generator when Away3D 4.0 is final. There is a built in torus primitive – at least there was in 3.6 – but it isn’t capable of doing what I have in mind. Ultimately I want to use this to run some cellular automata on the surface. Just for funzies.
I’ll be leading a Introduction to Away3D half-day training session at 360Flex in Denver on April 10th.
Note: I forgot that by using the ShadowBox embed tool for WordPress that I wouldn’t be able to add the parameter wmode=direct. A friend pointed out that the SWF was hitting about 40% CPU usage. Then I switched to loading the .html file – which has the wmode=direct parameter set – and the CPU usage went down to 2%. W00t!
