Featured on The FWA, this new mini-site for the 2009 Mazda 6 delivers a pretty cool user experience. I particularly liked the transitions when you switch the color of the car (see ‘room 2′)
, reminiscent of a certain Nissan commercial (Maxima or Altima? can’t remember…) where as the car accelerated, the paint peels away to reveal another color. As I began to navigate through the site, I suspected that they were using papervision – it just had that feel. 
Then when I got this telltale debug error window, 
the cat was out of the bag – they are using both Flex and Papervision (papervision is clear from the error, what is less obvious, is that flex was used – before the error popped up the standard blank flex loading page had come up). Overall a great site, and regarding the error, now that we have started rolling up our own papervision sleeves for an online gaming project…well lets just say its a bit involved.
I have to wonder though, as we begin to invest in Papervision, how the native 3D capabilities of Flash Player 10 are going to change the landscape for technologies such as PaperVision and Away3D once FP10 is released? There are sessions on Pixel Bender at the upcoming MAX (look for us there…more on that later!) conference, a technology which has been brought from After Effects into FP10 for image processing…
