Fig. 3a As asteroids dance their core’s grind against themselves creating a deep space anomaly; friction. The small amount of heat radiates and creates a small but flamboyant light show .

Just a quick update to Fred Astaireoid. I reduced the vertices on the Collada object by seventy-five percent which greatly improved memory. The visual result is a few sharper points on the object but nothing too drastic (i.e. Virtua Fighter 1). Also added a color transform utility to play with. This will be it for the astaireoid project for a while. Tune is “Lent” composed by Eric Satie and not included in source. Just drop an mp3 titled “01.mp3″ in the “assets” folder.

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Fig. 2a If a radioactive asteroid fragment becomes forlorn, or sick with lonely, at any point in its journey it will pause for a dance. Asteroids are generally too brittle and focused for such tom foolery, but they’ll get loose for the right tune.

This is a little eye candy drummed up for the christening of the new site.  This was sculpted in Blender, imported to Papervision3D and made lively with AS3dMod and some simple, home baked computeSpectrum() methods. I’m still trying to find my rhythm in Blender, so as of now that little booger has >1k vertices, which really chews up the memory. Tune is “Snookered” by Dan Deacon and not included in source. Just drop an mp3 titled “01.mp3″ in the “assets” folder.

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