Here's a prototype I worked on that explores the idea of what happens when you run the HYPE Framework as a plug-in w/in Illustrator and you add a little additional magic to it...

 

...spoiler alert... the magic is defined below....

 

HYPE + Flash Media Server (courtesy of Influxis and major props to Sean McCracken) allows multiple users to be connected to the same creative environment remotely. Users can access and collaboratively interact with the same content using a variety of different access points: from different computers running the plug-in in Illustrator; as a separate desktop application (where a designer might not have Illustrator installed on a particular computer); and / or via a browser. Once a design is mutually agreed upon, the design can be committed to Illustrator by clicking the make magic button.

 

To make the Flash plug-in talk directly to Illustrator, at the time this experiment was developed, I used Adobe's revamped magic which is now called the Creative Suite SDK, which replaced Adobe's PatchPanel.

 

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