March 23, 2007
Interactive Underwater Effect
Check this out:
I'm not one for gratuitous special effects for their own sake. But the potential for these kind of effects to transform the user experience in branding apps is undeniable. Typing my user name into a "swimming" textfield (as an example) is so much more immersive than the clinically-clean stock textbox.
As an aside, I've been skeptical of the performance of user-land bitmap processing code since the possibility was introduced in Flash. Per-pixel processing is slow. Per-pixel processing in a bytecode-interpreted scripting language is really slow (but compelling). This app confirms my suspicions: I'm running dual-cores and this single Flash app brings Firefox up to 50% CPU. There's opportunity here for the Flash runtime engineers to devise a way for users to write code that gets good "inner-loop" performance.
Posted by Devon at March 23, 2007 12:06 AM
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