Some old-school tunnel -effects with Flash 10 Astro, based on graphics.drawTriangles – you’ll need the beta release of Flash Player 10 for these demos to show correctly:

Image tunnel:

Vortex of Neon PerlinNoise:

Vortex of smoking pixels:

(SmokingPixels in 2D and source. yes, probably nothing you haven’t already seen in all the particle-demos around the net, just that the 3D-effect adds so much to it)

class ‘Tunnel’

TunnelDemo

As a principle it’s a cone and we’re taking a look inside of it, bended by adding a polynome to x,y-coords. As a 3D model it’s a relatively simple with no actual need for sorting the faces in z-direction, so it runs pretty fast and smoothly – I think.

Edit – September 2nd: Tunnel.as updated with usage of PerspectiveProjection and Utils3D.projectVectors – although the maths for projection in the earlier version were as simple as x2 = x*radius/z; y2 = y*radius/z; .