Category Archives: Flash

Back in November, I left Brightcove and started working for Infrared5. This was a really awesome move for me and I am really enjoying the space, the people, and the work. Not that there was anything bad about Brightcove, but … Continue reading →

Played with this a bit more tonite. Started with the same setup as last time, then kept hacking away at it til it looked like this. Had some fun input by my 5 year old daughter. “Nah, too slow” … … Continue reading →

Just like all the other people who are Singularity. Is that an oxymoron? Anyway, I can’t say I know a whole lot about it, but Aral asked me to speak back when he was first putting it together. Sounded like … Continue reading →

Not to get political here, but today is Super Tuesday. If you can vote today, make sure you do. That is all.

I’m writing this to have a place to point people who write to me about Foundation ActionScript 3.0: Making Things Move!, saying there are errors in the code. The problem comes when you use Flash CS3 to write ActionScript 3.0 … Continue reading →

I love playing with the php image library stuff. You can load or create and image, manipulate it with code and return the new image. Thus the php url itself, along with any parameters, can be used just as if … Continue reading →

Seems like everyone’s been programming particles lately. I was reminded of some stuff I was doing in Java years ago, and realized that AS3 is now up to the challenge. So took an hour or so this afternoon and created … Continue reading →

At last, my session description for FiTC Toronto is posted! http://fitc.ca/presentation_detail.cfm?festival_id=22&presentation_id=675 And my description: Get ready for some crazy math and incredible graphics. We’re going to take a whirlwind journey through the land of fractals, iterated function systems, chaos theory, … Continue reading →

Another take on this, showing what happens as K changes. Just slide the slider. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/standardmap2.swf” width=”400″ height=”450″/] That’s all there is to see. Move along.

I was perusing through Wikipedia and Wolfram in search of anything and everything related to fractals and chaos theory, and ran across the definition of a Standard Map. I have no freaking clue what it is all about, but apparently … Continue reading →