Category Archives: Flash

Chuck Freedman talked to myself and Chris Allen about the process of creating the Flash CS3 components for Ribbit. Read the interview here: http://developer.ribbit.com/blog/?p=90. If you want a chance to start using the components soon, check out http://developer.ribbit.com/blog/?p=91 And, if … Continue reading →

I’m not saying that you thought that the ActionScript used in Flash 10 was ActionScript 4. I’m not saying I thought it. But, maybe your mom got a little confused over it all and asked you about it and you … Continue reading →

[Edit May 21, 2008. Read on if you like, but you can now download the docs directly. http://theflashblog.com/?p=387] There have been a few links around about how to compile for the Flash 10 player. But there is no public online … Continue reading →

I’m a bit overwhelmed to be honest. I haven’t seen this many new features in a new release in… ever. Dynamic sound generation, basic 3D, IK, Vectors / typed arrays, local file saving, hardware acceleration, pixel shaders, new drawing API, … Continue reading →

Andre Michelle and others have been telling Adobe to Make Some Noise, and Adobe has listened! A preview release of Flash Player 10 “Astro” was released today, and in it is the capability to dynamically create sounds. See this demo … Continue reading →

We have a winner. Daniel Langh was the first one to get a solution to me. Here is it is: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/malfatti_circles.swf” width=”600″ height=”600″/] And the source. Just realized there’s a whole other class that goes with this. Here is … Continue reading →

This week’s subject is Malfatti Cirlces: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MalfattiCircles.html They look something like this: Basically, tangent circles, but each circle is also tangent to two sides of the given triangle. The challenge would be to take the file below: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/malfatti_circles.fla and fill … Continue reading →

For the non-Flash stuff: http://keith.bit-101.com/

Three of these arrived today. Very impressive!

Here’s another one from MathWorld, the Butterfly Function. Non-interactive, but pretty. 🙂 [Just updated this one. Inadvertently left an enterFrame function in there that was redrawing it on each frame, killing the CPU. Sorry bout that.] [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/butterfly.swf” width=”600″ height=”600″ … Continue reading →