Category Archives: Flash

Soddy Circles

Posted on May 7, 2008 by keith

We have a winner! At 4:05 a.m., I received the following from Ryan Phelan, who will get a free copy of Foundation ActionScript Animation 3.0: Making Things Move! [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/soddy_circles_1.swf” width=”600″ height=”600″ /] And the source. As you can see, … Continue reading →

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Tangent Circles

Posted on May 6, 2008 by keith

If you are ever a bit bored and looking for some cool material for some Flash Math Experimentation (surely there are one or two of you out there besides myself who do stuff like this), check out Wolfram Mathworld. Start … Continue reading →

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PseudoBiotic

Posted on May 3, 2008 by keith

David Tudury is a guy who used to be on the Flash forums back in the day. I remember he did some crazy 3D stuff back before Papervision was even a dream. After a long hiatus, he is back with … Continue reading →

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I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.

Posted on April 25, 2008 by keith

Well, at least my book is… Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! now available in Japanese! I knew this was being worked on, but didn’t know it was out already. Buy it here. I’ll be over there next month. … Continue reading →

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Three useful methods

Posted on April 23, 2008 by keith

As usual, I was blown away by Robert Hodgin’s presentation at FiTC, and decided to get back into Processing again. I picked up the official Ben and Casey book at the conference book table and was reading it on the … Continue reading →

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FOTB tickets on sale. Get the earlybird pricing!

Posted on April 19, 2008 by keith

I’m up bright and early to do some last minute packing and head to the airport for FiTC Toronto. Yeah! But I did want to mention that Flash on the Beach tickets are now on sale! There are 250 earlybird … Continue reading →

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Brevity reborn. Introducing "Bloom"

Posted on April 18, 2008 by keith

A couple of years ago (has it really been that long?) I was working on a project called “Brevity“. The idea behind this was a simplified language for creating AS3 experimental movies. The idea was to provide a simple syntax … Continue reading →

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More on Abstract Classes in AS3

Posted on April 17, 2008 by keith

A while back I posted about Singletons and Abstract Classes in AS3. My basic argument was along the lines of “AS3 doesn’t support them, so chill out and stop trying to force them into existence.” I was probably went a … Continue reading →

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FOTB 2008 begins

Posted on April 16, 2008 by keith

Per a message on FaceBook, FOTB08 tickets will be going on sale this weekend (19th / 20th) (fingers crossed! – a few technical gremlins have caused the delay). There will be a limited amount of Super Early Bird tickets, so … Continue reading →

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AS3 Coding Conventions

Posted on April 16, 2008 by keith

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Coding+Conventions Some good stuff here. The one thing that bugs me is that this is termed a “Flex” document. This document lays out the coding standards for writing open-source Flex framework components in ActionScript 3. But there is virtually NOTHING … Continue reading →

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