Chapter 1. Understanding Flash3D

Flash programmers have always enjoyed a freedom of expression unparalleled by other programming platforms. And with the release of CS4, Adobe has propelled that freedom of expression into the 3rd dimension.

But 3D didn't start with AS3. Flash developers were experimenting with 3D long before. And applications like Papervision3D formalized these endeavors into a robust object-oriented class structure. The acceptance and popularity of Papervision3D has become a driver of change in the Flash developer community. But underneath the 300 classes that make up Papervision3D still beats the original algorithms used by the early developers of Flash 3D.