But don´t miss out of the title. Papervision, fashion or future? Tendence or technology? fashion or victim? I´m really tired of this, as much as you should be one year before of hearing about web 2.0 and all that stuff. This is the same, yes, we all like In an absolut World, Tag Galaxy, Five 3D, Away 3D, Papervision, Sandy, Spectra, VaryWell, etc etc.Do you really think this is gonna be the internet tendence? Come on, don´t make me laugh!
Cubes are nice, ok, but I dare say nobody is talking about it in one year time, same thing that happened to SecondLife, unless you are a prophet of the web.
So now is coming Flashplayer 10 with things related to 3D. Ok, that´s fantastic! Good for them! I do not understand why they don´t make that out of the fascinating BitMapData class, much better and nicer than those cubes moving.
Is it technology that wants to make a tendence? That was made with the invention of the mouse and the windows. If I want to say wow I will see PerceptivePixel or surface . 3D is ok, if you want to be the first perhaps you´re late (well, not for the whole mass), but you will see more and more websites looking the same (same as Flex).
3 comments:
I think the full-on 3D Flash sites like those examples you highlight are going to ultimately be a bit of a fad.
People are designing them because it's new and cool, and developers are loving it because they get to play with new techniques.
After a while though, it'll be something that's been seen before, and people will get bored of them and try other things. They'll want more, and they'll get annoyed by things like the lack of antialiasing, framerates and such.
With the introduction of native 3D in the next iteration of the Flash Player I think 3D is here to stay as an element of design, although the effect is going to be far less in-your-face than the current crop of Papervision sites, and more subtle like the Five3D stuff.
I didn't find In an absolut world nice at all. I feel it's a perfect example of over using technologies.
I don't think these projects are a fad at all. Tiresome as they might become, they are attempts by the community to implement new techniques, effective or not. This is how we progress. It's rare that something is implemented from scratch that's so groundbreaking it changes the rules - most advances are small, incremental steps forwards.
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