Paint in 3D via your webcam

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Stewart-Hamilton Arrandale demonstrates how to turn your webcam data into striking 3D art.

This tutorial will see us displaying the data received through our webcam in a 3D form, via Flash 10's 3D capabilities.

We will explore simple 3D pixel representations of our webcam data, painting in 3D with the webcam and saving out the results as PNGs to the computer via Adobe AIR.

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