24 Dec 2006 : Image carousel
I'd used Jared Tarbell's cylinder image display on a couple of occasions previously, but as I was getting into 3D I was eager to see if I could produce something that gave more of a sense of 3D. The cylinder image display is a clever illusion using trigonometry and depth sorting, the pictures are just moving from edge to edge, but by changing their widths it gives the illusion that their path is circular.
My carousel was coded from the ground up in AS2, you can place the system at any position you want and still get the carousel effect. The pictures arn't properly distorted as Papervision does, they're just squashed, stretched and clipped, a neat little trick that saves oodles of processing power.
