Category Archives: Flash

One of my favorite mathematical diversions has been the subject of strange attractors. But to be honest, I’ve mostly just copied some formulas down from somewhere and started messing with them, making some cool graphics but not really having any … Continue reading →

Do you use Papervision 3D? X-Ray? Red5? Open Source Flash in general? Do you love Flash and Rock and Roll? Do you \m/ ? What do all these things have in common? John Grden. Think of this kind of like … Continue reading →

I’ve helped a couple people with this already, and I keep forgetting some of the details myself, so I thought I’d write it down so it’s here when I need it, and anyone else can benefit from it too. One … Continue reading →

I was looking at a spider web the other day, and in typical Flash geek fashion, thought to myself, “I could do that in Flash!” So I did. Take that, spiders! A million years of evolution, and I can do … Continue reading →

I’ve been waiting for this for a while. Should be fun to take a peek at what happens inside a compiled AS3 SWF. http://www.asvguy.com/2007/08/asv-6-alpha-1.html It’s available to licensed ASV 5 users.

The first few times I met John Grden, he had this long, flowing, golden hair. I’m not saying I was attracted to it or anything (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but the last time I saw him, he … Continue reading →

Over the weekend, I was working on a level editor for my Gravity Pods game. Check out the preview here. This is pretty fun programming. Definitely the most intensive AS3 work I’ve done. Getting a much deeper feel for some … Continue reading →

A typo in Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! was just pointed out to me. For years I used the bitwise shift operators to manipulate 24-bit colors. For example, if you have the hex color c=0xFF9900, you can get … Continue reading →