Ecoda dobutsuen

September 13, 2008 11:58 PM

The Eco Zoo - some amazing Japanese 3D Flash. If you take a close look at the animals there... you might be able to get some tips to live in a more environmentally friendly way!
posted by Artw (13 comments total)

Oh holy crap that's well done.
posted by fnerg at 12:15 AM on September 14, 2008

More on kappa, for the curious.

Also, what fnerg said. That was well done. Wikipedia took longer to load than the Eco Zoo did, for what it's worth.
posted by lekvar at 12:19 AM on September 14, 2008

There are all sorts of hidden details in the popup books if you spin them around.

great post, definitely "best of web".
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 12:35 AM on September 14, 2008

the guy who programmed this has been doing some amazing stuff lately.

his physics demos are quite inspiring for any flash developer..
posted by localhuman at 1:16 AM on September 14, 2008

That's every kind of amazing it can possibly be - if it were a "real" pop up book, I'd buy it.
Sweet find!
posted by Zack_Replica at 2:04 AM on September 14, 2008

There are seven numbers on the tree, but one and three have no animal.

BTW, "Tennis players don't marry because 'Love' means 'Nothing' to them."
posted by D.C. at 4:19 AM on September 14, 2008

(I thought that was a joke lost in translation, but googling reveals it on lists of English puns. Would I need to know about tennis to get it?)
posted by D.C. at 4:26 AM on September 14, 2008

In tennis the phrase "love" means a score of 0 points.

This is awesome! You have to flip the scenes around backwards to see everything, especially the koala one.
posted by damo at 4:37 AM on September 14, 2008

Also it's even better to see full-browser.
posted by damo at 4:50 AM on September 14, 2008

[this is really, really good]
posted by Busithoth at 8:54 AM on September 14, 2008

WOW. Yeah, don't forget to rotate the picture books. The detail is amazing.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 9:28 AM on September 14, 2008

Stunning Flash work.
posted by thinman at 12:14 PM on September 14, 2008

Wow, the 3D engine in that actually works on this piece-o-crap old computer. In Flash no less. I can barely get YouTube videos to play without skipping and freezing on this thing. I'm scared. That just isn't natural.


However, I'm pretty sure the combined, accrued wattage of running that pro-ecology art piece on millions of computers just totally overwhelmed any of the benefits of people simply turning off their lights and not using disposable bags.
posted by loquacious at 7:58 PM on September 14, 2008