A tiny bit of research into rendering cylinders in actionscript (using a displacement filter) has resulted in this example.

 For the sake of anyone out there who is interested in building a renderer for PV3D (or any of the AS3 3D engines) I have included the class code (it won't compile without our supporting libraries, but it will give you an idea how it's done).

I often talk (the verb), but it is a rare thing that I would do a talk (the noun). Thankfully, my talk was sufficiently underwhelming for me to be completely dissuaded from ever preparing one again.

Here were some of the items I spoke about:

http://www1.zkm.de/~wvdc/ascii/java/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2OytHzZ72Y

http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=81

http://nervo.tv/index.html?sect=5&proj=foxmovies

Somewhat interesting pieces using interesting inputs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

http://hehe.org.free.fr/hehe/champsdozone/

http://rhizome.org/artbase/2398/fear/

http://www.virtualart.at/common/viewWork.do?id=394