UFC 83 Review

A couple of days late but I’ve finally gotten down to putting together my recap of Saturday’s event.

I’d never seen a UFC event live before and I’ve been planning on taking a trip to Vegas for a while but I was glad that the show was in Canada, so I did not have to travel to far to watch it.

We got into the city around 1pm on Friday, it seemed that everyone there was from

Posted at 1pm on 04/23/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Mixed Martial Art/Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu read on

Lens Flare in Papervision 3D

I was trying to implement Andy Zupko’s lens flare example into my own project but I was having a really weird problem.  Andy’s class uses P3D’s render manager to test if the lens flare comes in contact with any display objects.  If it does then the flare hides.

This works fine enough unless you create a light and set it to be visible. I usually do this for testing purposes but the flare will treat

Posted at 12pm on 04/16/08 | no comments | Filed Under: AS3, Flash, Flex, Papervision read on

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This is the blog of Toronto multimedia artist and designer Phil Chertok.

It is dedicated to posting his musings on any subject of his choosing.  So feel free to look around, who knows what you might find.