Rob Bateman is a coder, author, company owner & part-time physicist. For more on his affiliations, click the links below. To get in contact, email rob@infiniteturtles.co.uk
Later today I'll be heading down to the WebGL workshop meetup in London to give a short pres on the progress of AwayJS. For those of you who don't know, AwayJS is the latest and…
Interesting thing, change. One minute you're downloading Wordpress plugins for anti-spam and tag clouds, the next you're looking at the ultra-minimal, mobile-ready markdown-loving npm-installing marvel of Ghost. Ironically, I first came across Ghost while trying…
So this is a little last-minute, but nevertheless extremely welcome – I’ll be speaking at this year’s Reasons to be Creative conference in Brighton in less that two weeks time! The conference is something…
While experimenting for an Away Studios project, I recently came up against the thorny issue of wide-angled rendering with a high field of view (fov). In Away3D it is possible to set the fov property…
Fresh from several months of condensed development, I am finally letting myself out of the house again. The reason? Two conference presentations around some of the new work coming out of The Away Foundation, as…
What with all the other stuff going on at the moment, a visit to the Hackney Community College on Friday for this year’s Digital Summer Camp should be a welcome change. I’ll be…
As part of the Digital Shoreditch festival this year, I will be attending the Make & Do event on the 15th and 16th of May as a presenter for Away3D. The idea with Make &…
Some of you may remember the bundled Away3D game that came with the first Adobe Gaming SDK download towards the end of last year. Called Invawayders (already regretting that title…), it demonstrated a simple Away3D…
Earlier this week, around the same time that Adobe was getting all amendy with their Flash whitepaper, we published our updated roadmap for Away3D & The Away Foundation. If you’ve not yet read it…
As one of the cornerstone concerns of the recent 4.1 Alpha release of Away3D, GPU optimisation is something we will all have to start paying more attention to in future. The discipline used to…
The more observant among you many have noticed a larger than normal activity-spike on our Github repositories recently, and wondered what was up. Well today wonder no more. Its frankly a relief to get back…
The animation system in Away3D has had a fair amount of refactoring in recent times, and as yet, less examples actually demonstrating performance and features. The demo above is intended as a first step to…
Only a month left until the new format for the creativathon that was Flash on the Beach, now Reasons to be Creative, kicks off in Brighton. Being the uneducated heathen that I am, I’ll…
A new training course has been announced for all London-based Away3D’ers! Hosted by the LFPUG, Stepping into the 3rd Dimension is a two day workshop which will focus on Away3D 4.0 features and…
Recently it was announced that Adobe will act as a funding partner to the Away3D engine, after an agreement was made between Adobe and newly formed non-profit organisation The Away Foundation. With Away3D, Adobe are…