# Need Help with False 3D Effect

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-false-3d-effect/57732>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 15, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-false-3d-effect/57732 "2004-07-15T18:31:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![windforce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@windforce](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/windforce)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-false-3d-effect/57732/1 "2004-07-15T18:31:22Z")

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Hi there,

I hope this is the proper location for this thread. Anyways, I was wondering if anyone has a tutorial on how to achieve this simple and widely seen effect found at:

[http://www.eventquest.com](http://www.eventquest.com)

I know it is mapping 3d co-ordinates (x,y,z) on a 2d plane (x,y). Variations of this kind of effect have including increasing the speed of the rotations depending on where the mouse is moving, and actually rotating the axes themselves.

I know that [Flashkit.com](http://Flashkit.com) has a tutorial on rotating a 3D Flower in their tutorial section, but it never explained the theory behind it. Can anyone give me a bare-bones no frills explanation/file on how it works? Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers!

Jack :h:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-false-3d-effect/57732/2 "2004-07-15T18:34:18Z")

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did you test drive the 3D tutorials here?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-false-3d-effect/57732/3 "2004-07-15T18:42:34Z")

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Hey Senocular,

I just found the 3d subsection in the “Actionscript” section of the tutorials. I’ll look them over and complete the exercises. On first glance, it looks promising. Thanks for the suggestion!!

Windforce