Weblog: Pieter Vanderwerff Visualisations

I am currently in the process of updating the design of the visualisations website with a more professional look. The following two pictures below document the progress so far. The website will be a very clean simple design similar to the existing website theme, the main differences will be a cleaner layout making the page less cluttered, more colour! and lighting that puts an emphasis on the center of the page drawing attention to the important content.

Visualisations website redesign showing the new projects page | full size image

The new design will take advantage of jquery to do effects such as changing images and fading the menu lights in and out on hover. As a proof of concept project i am considering making a simple cms for the website that takes advantage of jquery and ajax to do inline editing of all content.

Below is an example for the flash ram player, this is a more advanced version of the one i made for this previous post, Mental Ray Render Optimisation. The main difference is that it now loads in the images instead of embedding them so it is possible to use it for different situations without recompiling the swf file every time.

The flash file receives the url to the images you want displayed via flashvars, it then uses a loader to load the images and display the loading progress. The ram player as it is has some limitations, you can only use it for images 500 x 375px without having to change the action script code and at the moment it does not support the text summary's shown in the Mental Ray Render Optimisation post. I will add this functionality and post an update when i have time.