Here it is, a collapsible menu in AS3. This experiments was compiled using the Adobe Flash 9 public alpha.  As an extra,  I decided to release a few other experiments that you can download here.  I based the AS3 code on the collapsible...

Before I update the collapsible menu into AS3, I realised that I was dissatisfied with the animation's motion.  The tweening was done using the well known method x -=(x-dx)/speed Although smooth I found it unreliable at times (try clicking...

This post is based on the elastic menu v2 I had written a long time ago.  I am redesigning my portfolio and needed a collapsible menu.  So I rewrote the elastic menu script and changed all hotizontals to verticals. The goal of this exercice...

Got a sphere to rotate around in 3D sphere. The theorem of the bucky ball turned out to be too complex to implement.  The miniml approach came from the wikipedia sphere definition.   I implemented this equation by creating the following...

Got a cylinder to rotate around the 3D sphere.  I am still searching for a  simple equation for creating a sphere in 3D.  I found this site that describes the theorem of the bucky ball. Great stuff, based on mathematics also known fullerene...

In this step for creating a sphere that rotates around a 3D spehere I decided to place my clips using two different functions.  Now I know this can be done more abstractly, but I wanted to show that in order to place clips on 2 different axises...

Creating a circle to rotate around a 3D spehere uses the same equations as the 3D XYZ post.  What I am doing here is creationg a circle in 3D space by placing a conventional 2d circle on the 3D axis (a.k.a the circle y remains 0 whereas we increment...

since I decided to put a hold on the 3D cube experiments, the logical next step would be a 3D sphere. I went back to the xyz rotation post and worked on putting a sphere together. Some of the experiments were successfull and some came as a surprise....

I will put a halt on to the 3D cube experiments as I will need to investigate further into the design of solids with freeform surfaces theory for correct 3D shape modeling, rotation and z sorting. I updated the 3D cube v4 post to create an automatic...

Based on yesterdays 3D cube v3 post.  I eliminated the 8 corner clip visuals and used the drawing API line.beginFill to fill the square.  I am experiencing a small problem, though.  The squares 6 sides are not aware of their Z position...

Using the drawing API we connected the4 clips together to create a square inside the 3D cube v2 example. I added all other point connecteors in the connectDots array to connect all point in a cube.This specifies the order at which I want the drawing...

Using the drawing API you can easely connect the dots from the 3D cube v1  modelPoints array.  I created a new array named connectDots in which I specify the order at which I want the drawing API to execute the lineTo (from which dot to which...

To get the cube to react to mouse movement, I added the following lines of code. In the 3D  xyz rotation function (named renderRotate), I calculate the mouse x and y position relative to the stage (values range from 0 to 100) and then convert...

In my last post, I elaborated on the equations to rotate multiple clips in 3D space by adding 3D panning and zooming.   Using those equations, I am now creating 3D models using an array I define as modelPoints in which I have all points positions...

In my last post, I showed the equations to rotate multiple clips in 3D space around a sphere. In this example I integrate the 3D camera equations based on the 3D pull & camera Zoom post. This enables us full control over our 3d world. //...

This is not rocket physics, working off the 3D sphere rotation post, the final  equation needed to rotate multiple clips in 3D space along the x y and z axis is found bellow.  This comes form translating the a clips x,y,z  properties...

Back from the holidays.  First matter to take care of is the winner of the free 2006 reflektions.com | miniml source file collection. The question was "how many flash experiments were posted on reflektions | miniml in 2006" and the answer...