Planet Multimedia
sphereSampler.swf
This demonstration project explores some of the things you can do with a tiny planet of your own: for instance, map each of the nine cells that line the surface of your virtual globe to a particular SWF -- movies within movies.
What you see here was adapted from the basic nine-cell grid with spherical mapping. Instead of loading a graphic into each of the cells, we use Loader to bring in a compiled movie file (SWF); the procedure is the same. The SWFs comes from various demos we've gone through this semester, from the very first ball-in-a-box, to Bitmap class and API drawing examples.
The results are visually vertiginous -- it turns out that many of our code examples only appear to fit within a 400x400 window -- but the basic function of the spherically wrapped grid is preserved. You can wander through Demo Space in any direction, infiniteiy.
Notice that interactive effects in those demos that have them (e.g., Noisy Room, or the X-Ray Mask) still work as advertised, if you can hold onto your reference point long enough to try.
Finally, you may note that one set of demos has been omitted from the crazy show: both the scrolling-image and spherical-map demos. Since they operate in a display space that cannot be confined to the 400x400 square, they don't fit in here.
Still, if we scaled our virtual planet down sufficiently, there's no reason we couldn't have a world within a world.
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