I’ve just added my first ActionScript 3 experiment over at my lab and it’s my addition to the sound visualizers that are out there. I know it’s far less awe-inspiring than some of the ones from Lee’s contest on The Flash Blog, but I’m happy with it for now. I’ll be making a few adjustments to it in the near future but let me know what you think in the meantime. Oh yeah, almost forgot to link you to it… click here.
Rather than having a page on here for my experiments and playing around with Flash, I decided that I’d finally just go ahead and set up another blog. I really don’t have much more to say about it so here’s the link. If you’d still like to see the old page on this blog for some odd reason, you can get to it here.
Dream Wash Transition
I started messing around with some more BitmapData stuff last night and came up with this transition which is a combination of perlinNoise, DisplacementMapFilter, blendMode and some simple alpha fading. Other than that, I don’t have much more to say, so go ahead and click on the “Picture 1″, “Picture 2″, and “Picture 3″ buttons to see the transition in action.
Galaxies of Math
I started out this project wanting to work on some kind of fractal math and decided I would start with the Spleenwort Fern. After I got it where I wanted it, I started playing with the rotation. I couldn’t decide which amount of rotation I liked best, so I just set it up to choose one at random every few seconds or so. After that, I just added a bit of a bluish glow and thought it resembled a galaxy. I’d have to add that I learned a good deal about the Matrix Object. Especially the translate and tranformPoint methods.
Burn baby, burn
Ok ok, so there’s already been people making fire with Flash 8’s perlinNoise, but I wanted to take a stab at it. A little mixture of BitmapData, DisplacementMapFilter, perlinNoise, and blendMode and voila! Houston, we have a fire.
Ready for the storm
How bout a little perlinNoise, Drawing API, and GlowFilter for ya? eh? I started playing with the BitmapData.perlinNoise method and came up with some moving clouds. From there, I added some rain and the lighting which my “northern lights” experiment was based on. After that, I figured I’d make the wind appear to gust by modifying the angle of the rain. Hope you enjoy it!
Blur Worm
Well, here I am again with another experiment using BitmapData and BlurFilter. This time, there’s a good bit more math involed in animating the… well, I’ll just call it… umm… ringworm. heh heh. Click on the Skitzify button if you dare, but be careful with it because I couldn’t see straight for a little while after watching that.
Before I started this blog, I had (and will continue to have) my Flash experiments housed on my website at fincanon.com. I finally got around to integrating them into this blog tonight. I think the thing I’m going to like best about it is that both places are pulling the same files. This, of course, means that when I do a new experiment I just put it up in one place and both sites are good to go! Anyway, check ‘em out when you get a sec and keep just half an eye on them as I’ll be creating more experiments when I have time here and there. Oh, almost forgot to mention that I’ll be adding the ability to write comments on the experiments page as soon as I can get to it.
