labs.boulevart

We where lucky to work on this great project commissioned by the Cronos Group.
Since the event was canceled we wheren’t able to see it working like planned.

But I managed to build a demo setup at the Holocube office.
There was only one screen available for this demo.
But it’s built to scale. Tested with three laptops.

We didn’t have RFID cards for this demo so the messages are generated by the RFID software client.

Built with C++ and OpenGL using the wonderful OpenFrameworks , Inpinj RFID readers and some C# to create a RFID socket server.

Thanks to the people at Time2Trace for all the help with the RFID setup, the Humblet brothers for the 3D modelling, Holocube for the demo hardware.

Commissioned by Amphion Boulevart worked on the Flash and PHP side of things for the Belgian Coca Cola christmas campaign.

As a little Elf you can help decorate the Coca Cola christmas tree with your own personalized message.

Upload pictures, take a snaphsot with your webcam, use a picture of the coke photo album, fancy 3d animations… It’s all there.

With every card you send you support the Cliniclowns with 5 eurocents.

Let the genuine Christmas feeling enchant you!

Amphion, the interactive agency for Coca Cola, commissioned us to work at the latest Coke Zero campaign: Quantum of Solace.

This great campaign has been developed in Flash and PHP by us. Concept, design, sound and video was done by the fabulous Amphion crew.

Your mission: dismantle the Booby trap by untying a a rival secret agent her dress.

Technical note:

We wrote our own After Effects scripts to port the motion tracking as cue points in the video. We then used the coordinates from the video cue points in Flash for the collision detection.

It’s been lots of fun working on this project.
Check the game and the video’s and you will soon find out.

http://www.cokezero.be

We are currently developing a small AIR application to simplify tracing in flash (and flex)
The idea is pretty much the same as LuminicBox, X-Ray, … but adapted to our needs.

Main features
- Tracing from the browser, IDE or standalone
- Exploring arrays, custom classes, objects, … in multiple depths
- 3 levels for filtering you results (debug, status, error)
- Easy search through your traces

Future wishlist
- Better management of the popups
- Custom classes will output their property names
- Bitmapdata will display a thumbnail
- Sound will add a control bar to test it
- Better design and/or fixing some of the styling errors
- Add an auto-updater

Please note that this is still very much in beta. Errors and unexpected behaviour will occure, but I encourge everyone to use it and send us feedback so we can improve it!
Also note that it is unsigned and does not have an auto-updater yet.
Once i’m back from vacation i’ll fix these things as soon as possible.

Usage
- Add the source files to your classpath.
- Import the classpath:
import be.boulevart.whitefly.Fly;

- Use one of these lines of code to trace your item:
Fly.debug(item);
Fly.status(item);
Fly.error(item);

Screenshot

Download
Whitefly Beta 1

We finished an event guide for Scotch On The Rocks today. Thomas experimented on a global navigation concept, based on stunning motion graphics, composed by his friend Ben Dekeyzer who is also elected for the semifinal round in Adobe’s Design Achievement Awards. Just check out the video below and see how the SOTR Mobile Guide looks like.

It was a bit of a last minute call so we did not had the time to create installers. We are providing zip files containing both the flash lite 2 and 3 project. Check it out.

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flash lite 2 version: download here

flash lite 3 version: download here

Thomas is not attending SOTR but our own Nicolas Lierman is. He is giving sessions about data visualisation and web analytics. Have a great time and some great scotch. (and use the app if you have a flash lite enabled phone! )

check out Thomas’s blog for more info