The original concept behind Tweetpond is News Pond, an ambient real-time visualisation of news headlines built in 2003. Read the full post for a summary of the original News Pond design documentation.
Recent posts
- Billboarding in Papervision3D 2.0 using DisplayObject2D 24 Aug 09
- News Pond: The concept behind Tweetpond 07 Jul 09
- Introducing Tweetpond 11 Jun 09

Billboarding in Papervision3D 2.0 using DisplayObject2D
Tweetpond uses standard Flash TextFields rendered as part of the 3D scene to display tweet content. This technique is called billboarding or point sprites. Read the full post for our implementation of DisplayObject2D that lets you do billboarding in Papervision3D 2.0.