Degrafa

This is an application I built that functions as an address book, a phone using Ribbit, and a 3d Mii Editor (like on the Nintendo Wii) for the people in your address book. The address book can also load your contacts from Facebook using the "Little People" application that I wrote. The Miis are rendered in full 3d using a custom combination of Degrafa and Papervision3d.

This is the MiiCall application.

Further implementation details in the full post.

This is an implementation that brings Degrafa geometry into Papervision3d. I implemented a new Renderable in Papervision org.papervision3d.core.render.command.RenderDegrafa which transforms a set of Degrafa definitions into 3d render commands. These are located in the org.papervision3d.core.geom.renderables package.These are then rendered at runtime (as vectors, not using bitmaps at all) by the org.papervision3d.materials.special.DegrafaMaterial. I also implemented an early version of the Degrafa Transformations to support various modifications of the geometry at runtime.

The demo application for both is DegrafPaper3d and Degrafa Transformations Demo. A (slightly) more beautiful example is the Mii Call demo, which uses this technology to draw the features on the Mii's faces.

Read the full post for more implementation details and the story behind this.