sabato, settembre 09, 2006

Page Flip Redux

OK, after looking around the WWW for page flip effects, I believe I've accumulated a list of all the possible options. (Famous last words.) Here they are for posterity.

B found the absolute best (but also most complicated) page flip engine. It’s really impressive! If you want to be boggled by cool/complicated ActionScript this is worth a perusal just for that!

Iparigrafika

While the above is free, these folks seem to have extended it and charge $25 for a Flash component version (it’s pretty – and requires much less hand tweaking):

Flipping Book

E pointed out this neat O’Reilly version a few months back:

O'Reilly

MM found a neat example once that must have been generated by a 3D guru. Pretty neat effect! However, not exactly something you can do with code.

3D Template

There’s even a simple DHTML version – it’s not as cool as the Flash examples, but it’s interesting to see all the methods that have evolved for this effect.

DHTML