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Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

In this tutorial I will show you how to build a simple 3D photo album in AS3. We will build an application similar to this one. I will use two AS3 libraries: FIVe3D and TweenLite, both open source. Five3D is a lightweight 3D library written by Mathieu Badimon. TweenLite is one of the many libraries available for script based animation in AS3. It was created by Jack Doyle from Greensock. It's principal characteristic is that it's small (hence it's name) and simple to use. FIVe3D and TweenLite work very well together!

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Create a AS3 MP3 Player with papervision3d spectrum display

As we've already promised you, here's the tutorial about how to create a 3d spectrum display from a sound file with papervision3d and flash. On this tutorial, we'll focus on the 3d part. If you're not comfortable with the SoundMixer.computeSpectrum method then you should read the previous tutorial.

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Make your own Flickr search engine with Flash and AS3

Flickr stores on their servers, photos form all their users around the world, and they have an open api so you could interact with it, and make your own developments, like PicNik.com, the photos online editor, where you could import your Flickr photos and make it look really cool. Now in this tutorial I'm gonna show you how to interact with the flickr data base, making your own photo search engine, looking for tags on the photos.

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