Archive for October 2010 - Purple Squirrels

Below is some videos taken at the Adobe MAX 2010 conferences during Sneaks sessions. Sneaks sessions are a chance for Adobe to demonstrate prototypes and new technologies that may or may not make it into future Adobe products. Some pretty interesting stuff!

Typography of Code- a new way of displaying and reading code for designers

Wallaby – Exporting an FLA to HTML

Flash StageVideo – a performance demo showing smooth playback with low CPU usage when overlaying vector graphics on 1080p video

Flash StageVideo – smooth playback of 4K video in Flash

Video Tapestry – a new way to navigate a video

Photoshop Future – matching colours in photos

Pixel Bender 3D – shaders for the new ‘Molehill’ 3D api coming to Flash

Below are some videos from the new 3D apis codenamed ‘Molehill’ to be included in the next version of Flash. This was announced at the Adobe MAX conference yesterday. This is some pretty amazing stuff… full 3D maps and all done on the GPU.