The Carpenter Group, a business consulting company, needed a new website and they wanted something very interactive. Their idea was to illustrate good practices with a 3d-ish animated menu page. The page I ended building for them required a primitive 3d engine (actionscript 2.0) and some very simple artificial intelligence. The overall effect is very visually interesting. Randomly placed arrows move about in a 3-d environment until a menu item is clicked. The arrows then move towards a pattern chosen to illustrate the selected item. This was incredibly challenging because some of the patterns are very dynamic, so the arrows are often trying to relocate to a position that's changing with time. Also, the shape of the orbit of the menu items turned out to be slightly complicated. They wanted it to closely match a still image that designers built and that required a bunch of trigonometry and a 4th order polynomial correction function because it wasn't elliptical. Needless to say, this was a challeging and extrememly fun project!
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