Visual search with AIR and Papervision

I just did a little experiment with AIR and Papervision. This app grabs all the overview thumbs from Parleys.com, saves them together with the corresponding tags in a local database and lets you search through them. It also generates checkboxes for each tag so you can filter them. The search result is visualized with papervision. It´s really fun to type and see all the items fly around and rearrange.
I only have a screencast here for now but I plan to release a simpler version with source soon. I used Ying to record this screencast so the fps is a bit low but believe me it`s super smooth in reality.

Check out the screencast

What I learned from this experiment?
- AIR rocks!
- AIR Sqlite support roocks!
- Papervision rooocks!
- Flash Player performance roooocks!

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February 26, 2008 | Filed Under AIR, AS3, UI 

Comments

8 Responses to “Visual search with AIR and Papervision”

  1. phpnuke on February 26th, 2008 7:23 pm

    I cannot remember where i exactly saw visual search before but this is obviously a great invention.

  2. luchyx on February 27th, 2008 2:53 am

    It’s like the PicLens plug-in for Firefox.
    But this As3 version is pretty cool!!.
    Congrants!

  3. empity on February 27th, 2008 4:14 pm

    Great job. i like it so much. but i can’t see the air installation file. where is it. where i can download it. please give the url.

  4. Benjamin (Admin) on February 27th, 2008 4:29 pm

    source is not available at this point. It`s just a little tease but as I said in the post I plan to prepare a version with source soon.

  5. Guillermo on April 3rd, 2008 10:30 pm

    Hallo Bejnamin,

    Very cool, I look forward for the source code.

    Keep a head,

    We will see in Berlin in the Air Tour 2008,

    Grüße,

    Guillermo

  6. James on May 5th, 2008 12:16 pm

    Cool demo – how complex is that repositioning /animation stuff in Papervision?

    Looks great – can’t wait to see the source!

  7. Adam Ray on October 30th, 2008 12:23 am

    Hi,

    Please please please can we see the source – you have been teasing us since Feb

    Adam

  8. Benjamin (Admin) on October 30th, 2008 1:14 am

    Hey Adam,

    Yeah i totally forgot about this one :-)
    The problem is that the example depends on some client backend and at the moment i`ve absolutely no time to create a clean example to share. What are you espacially interested in? It`s pretty basic papervision stuff. If you need a tip how to do it yourself let me know.
    Benz
    (I really try to put something up – but no promise – I feel bad :-( )

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