In case you haven’t heard of Papervision 3D, it’s an open-source 3D engine developed for the Flash platform. Click here to see an example of the tech in action (all you need is Flash 9 installed). Until recently, 3D within Flash has been near impossible to achieve. Papervision 3D has opened up a whole new world of possibilities in terms of how we conceptualise an online experience - quite literally anything is now possible.

Sites making use of Papervision 3D are springing up all over the place. Here are just a few examples of some truly amazing Papervision 3D experiences:

• Red Bull Flight Lab
• Audi RS6
• 2008 Honda Accord
• Monster Burnout
• Black XS
• Audi “Rhythm of Lines”
• Sony Bravia
• Paper Critters

I’m really hoping to see some rocking Papervision 3D sites coming out of South Africa soon. But I fear the worst… there seems to be only a handful of really good Flashers who are capable of understanding and using Papervision, and by the looks of things, most of them are spread too thinly with their day-jobs (rolling out corporate widgets and conventional Flash work) to invest the time needed in getting over the steep PV3d learning curve.

Oh, big-ups to Hello Computer for being the first studio in SA to use the technology a Papervision 3D site: Moonlighting

Anyone else seen any Papervision work coming out of SA?