Product configurator software company, Bremen · 2006–2009
3D shadow planner for sun protection
Interactive 3D shadow simulation for a sun-protection manufacturer’s online product configurator: my own Flash 3D engine, sun position from date, time and location, scenes in XML.
For a Bremen-based software company specialising in product configurators, I developed an interactive shadow simulation in Flash, intended for the online product configurator of a sun-protection manufacturer. It was built on my own real-time 3D engine with projection, depth sorting, clipping and shadow casting for buildings, masts, shade sails and a human figure.
Scenes are described in XML. From the date, time and geographic location, the application calculates the position of the sun and animates the shadows over a day or a year. The scene can be rotated freely with the mouse and has a north indicator and play/pause. After a first demo in 2006, the production version followed in 2008 in ActionScript 2 and 3, including performance optimisation through pre-calculation.
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