The clever guys at Credit Score Blog made the research and design on this brilliant infographic for Focus.com about the pros and cons of Skype’s acquisition by Microsoft last Week. There has been lost of posts about the strategy behind Microsoft’s choice, and the value of the transaction. This infographic presents an overview of the evolution of Skype, features [...]
Tags: acquisition, Microsoft, Skype, transaction, value
I have always been fond of subway map. love the graphic quality of it! I thought I would give it a quick try in Flash and in 3D. This experiment draws a random subway map every time you refresh the page.
Tags: 3D, Actionscript, map generation, random
“Spheres on a plane” by Dead Roman – a real-time motion graphics experiment. It placed 4th in the annual demoscene competition at The Gathering 2011 in Norway. Making-of: blog.subsquare.com/behind-the-spheres-on-the-plane
This is an art installation which is able to create a visionary beautiful dots pattern of blinking innumerable illuminations floating in all directions on the air. The number of balls with a built-in LED, pass through one after another on the rail “8-spiral shape.” We see this phenomenon like “the light particle float around” because the balls radiate in [...]
My Blog got hacked last week, and I am still recovering my files and experiments. Had not backed up my content properly, lesson learmed the hard way! So whoever is passing by, I am currently re-uploading my content, feel free to come back a little later for a full visit ;D
Tags: evolution, infographic, mobile development, statistics, trends
I really enjoyed Grant Skinner’s drawing of a tree, and I thought, I could give it a try as well. I got some help with Duarte Peixinho’s experiment you can find on the wonderful website. I tweaked many of his variables and added a few things, like stopping the Listeners when the tree is drawn. So here [...]
Tags: Actionscript, Drawing API
This is my creative response to the great post “Stop trying to make the Internet boring!” by Andreas about all the crap on section 3.3.1 on the apple developper’s user agreement. Watch out coz it’s pretty CPU intensive (more than 3000 particles on this one, updated on the fly) Hope you enjoy it , and [...]
Tags: Actionscript, balls, image, papervision
Here some actionscript code snippets and/or tricks I stumbled upon, or found by myself. I may use it as a reminder. / (via @zeh) //count only “drawn” frames NetStream.decodedFrames //complete frame count NetStream.info.droppedFrames Here is a snippet to force the browser’s focus when leaving fullscreen mode : stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,toggleFullScreen); function toggleFullScreen(event:MouseEvent):void { switch (stage.displayState) { [...]
Tags: Actionscript, Flash, Snippet
I was surfing on the web last week when I found a map of the world drawn with separated pixels. It was static jpeg, and I thought, hey why not draw this dynamically, and animate it on mouse over ? This my first script really using flash player 10. In fact I am using the [...]
Tags: Actionscript, Flash, image, pixel