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
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
I have always loved pixel effects. So here is a little experiment which allows you to recompose an image from tiny bits. First of all I import a new image from the library, and define the size in pixels of the tiny pieces I want to use to compose the image. This number will be [...]
Tags: Actionscript, image, pixel, recompose, Tween