Re: FLASH: Communicating about adding Flash to apps (with Director 6.5)

[Troy M. Gilbert]

>MM lacks here. Im still blow away they called Sigraph a "general computer

>show"

>and didnt make it a point to represent themselves at THE largest computer

>animator's

>show in the world.


I couldn't agree with Gary more. I contacted Macromedia in the early part

of summer and asked if any of their programmers would be at their booth at

SIGGRAPH. I too was blown away when they told me they didn't even plan on

having a booth. They felt their products were too web-oriented for

SIGGRAPH. I think that's where they're missing the boat. With the speed of

graphics cards today, real-time generated graphics are seeing the light.

Note the success of 3D graphics cards. I think Macromedia is making a

mistake by not pushing their technology into other fields. Consider

personal digital assistants: I don't see high-res video in their near

future. The low-bandwidth scalability of Flash would be perfect.


Personally, I'm working to develop a library of cross-platform tools:

OpenGL for 3D, Flash for 2D and Java for logic. I think its a match made in

heaven. (BTW, if anyone is interested in further discussing this idea,

e-mail at

tgilbercomp [dot] uark [dot] edu

).


Troy.





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