Sandy 3D Engine
We’ve started our journey into the world of 3D rendering in Flash with the help of Sandy 3D Engine, an open-source AS3 library for rendering and manipulating objects in 3D. So far it looks great - simple and elegant with a clean object model. The demos look nice too, although it seems that so far there is more of an emphasis on creating realistic, static models in 3D space rather than anything more dynamic and functionally useful. We believe there is real scope in harnessing this technology for new applications - exploring functional spaces such as a maps in new, intuitive ways, creating different user interfaces for important tasks, revealing patterns in data through the use of intelligent modelling and visualisation techniques.
Hopefully, there will be much more on this blog regarding these topics in the months to come. For now, we would note that Sandy 3D Engine is an excellent platform for what we seek to do. And that fact that it has been recently updated for AS3 (meaning it is true OO) makes it an attractive development option. Kudos to the authors for their work so far.
