As marketers devote bigger portions  of their budgets to digital-ad campaigns. Finding ways to cut costs for digital production work is becoming increasingly important. Online campaigns have increased in sophistication and Adobe Flash, benefiting...

Based on toggle menu v0 speed is now calculated via the slider.  I also added x position detection to be more precise.  inside checks if mouse is inside the X and Y area of the rectangle whereas state calculate precisely if the mouse is approaching...

I used the bitmapData draw method to take snapshots of the light.  In essece, I am converting the effect into a bitmap image. This results in decreasing the amount of total vectors on stage (sine they are being drawn through the drawing API) and...

Using a similar light effect script as the one posted on light effect v4, I created 5 points and made sure the line effect traveled between all 5 points. I also included a speed variable to control the speed of the animation.  Due to the transparency...

In the following example,  I am using a similar light effect script as the one posted yesterday, In this example I blurred the generated drawing API lines.  To get my script to go from point A to B, I am interpolating between 0 and 1. ...

In the following example,  I am using a similar light effect script as the one posted a few months ago, although I decided to make it choose  random points on stage and move from one point to another.  To get my script to go from point...

I officially decided that time had come to move into a new era of programming, Reflektions | miniml will now switch to AS3.  The holidays are here and time has come to start thinking of new year resolutions, and I thought this would be a good...

Adding touch! to the I-tunes cover flow script. I added an onRelease event handler That calculates the x distance the 2D camera object has to travel in order to center the clicked item.   I made sure this takes under consideration the distance...

One addition to the I-tunes cover flow script I posted last week. I added a variable I called ratio and assigned it controls the spacing between the items.  Initially I set it to 3.7 although by clicking on the reset button you can generate random...

A few months ago a few talented flashers scripted the I-tunes cover flow and ended up using thousands of lines of code and the papervision 3D API.  Then again, results were sluggish and often required flash 9.  Here are those experiments...

I based this experiment on the x slider physics. Create 20 identical clips and arrange them one after the other horizontaly.  Create a camera object and compute its position through the slider. I also added the bitmap skewed rotation and rotated...

Skewing my bitmap as it travels across the stage. I am looking into creating a more organic animation.  I created a variable n that I am incrementing in order to displace my gradient and create the following animation.  AS far as skewing...

In the folowing example,  I am using a similar script as the one posted yesterday, although I decided to include a extra line on top of the blured one and I spaced out the x points and no longer delete the line.  I wait for the animatiojn...

Using the drawing API I draw a line between two points.  I then decided to create and store a random y positions in a n array in order to draw a zigzag shapes (see last post).  I now blur the  created line to give a halo or fire effect....

A few months ago I was asked to create a light streaking effect in flash for the new sprint.com campaign. The following posts will be dedicated in the acheivement of that specific effect.  I decided to start by using teh drawing API and draw a...

You can download my Flash Forward bitmapData and 3D image manipulation in AS3 lecture files here. Browse through all experiments and get source code here

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I showed this last experiment at my FITC lecture. It is an extension to the OSX circular menu v4 post. I applied the same logic or the icon spacing where I created a variable I call Hz that defines the horizontal space needed between icons when the...

Got it! I created a circular OSX style navigation menu similar to the Tagnautica menu by Mario Klingemann.  The code is actually even simpler than the last OSX menu post. Instead of laying out my icons on a horizontal line, I arrange them around...

In the last OSX menu script, I realised I was lacking a variable to control the horizontal spacing between items.  That is why I created the hZ variable to desxcribes in pixels how much space between each icon.  Use the slider to control...

About a year ago, I had posted a few experiments about creating and OSX type navigation menu. A few weeks ago, I decided to rework that code in order to ultimately create a navigation similar to the Tagnautica menu by Mario Klingemann.  What is...

This tab menu helps display tabbed information with a simple navigation.One of the few components not represented in the Macromedia V2 component set, the tabs are a useful alternative. I wrote this small script, it has everything you need to populate...

I mentioned in previous posts that skewing is not available in ActionScript outside of the transformation matrix ... then again the transformation matrix skewing is not anything special. After much playing around, I realise the matrix is a bit complicated,...

There are at least four good reasons to use the transformation matrix:      1. BitmapData requires a transformation matrix to transform drawn bitmaps   2. To encapsulate info about how to transform a Clip/BitmapData instance...

In the distort image v7 post, I used the trasfrmationMatrix class to create transformation effects onto my clips.  In Flash 8, any movie clip now has a property called transform. This is an object that contains another property called matrix....

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...

Each grid cel ,created using the grid code,  gets the same image assigned to it.  Although they each mask a different part of the picture, this creates the following pattern.  This enables us to consider each image fragment as an individual...

Looking at physical forces I wanted to give a simple solution to getting clips to react to mouse movement by growing and shrinking as the mouse gets closer.  Proximity and repulsion is detection is what we need and we acheive this by getting each...

In my last post I wrote about creating grids in flash and I mentioned that it could be usefull for equalizing music.  This post is still a long way from an equaliser but here is teh basic principle.  You create your grid and get each cel...

The basic of all of the next number of post will reside on understanding how to construct grids in flash. Often neglected this small parcel of knowledge can be used on numerous occasions, especially when dealing with patterning backgrounds, music equaliser...

Based on the stradians post  and the  z slide physics  (you could also take a look at the other 3D experiments that use the same technique).  We define a frequency at which the circle generates and then generate that in our 3D space. ...

Yesterday I posted some facts about steradians,  and finaly realised why I needed to listen to my math teacher in high school. So yeah, a steradian is the solid angle subtended at the center of a sphere. My next posts will use this to create sweet...

All these experiments with circles and 3D often guides me in getting  an understanding of those unobvious things geomety and mathematics has to offer.  In this case, stredians, something I encountered when I was trying to get multiple clips...

In the mathematical subfield of numerical analysis, interpolation is a method of constructing new data points from a discrete set of known data. This is called curve fitting. Interpolation is a specific case of curve fitting, in which the function...

In the mathematical subfield of numerical analysis, interpolation is a method of constructing new data points from a discrete set of known data. This is called curve fitting. Interpolation is a specific case of curve fitting, in which the function...

Rotating a clip along a curved path is largely based on the rotation of the mouse formula.  In this example the clip follows the mouse cursor using this simple formula :  dx = _xmouse - clip._x; dy = _ymouse - clip._y; // roate clip...

I can not go any further into my particle exploration scripts if I cannot get this point across.  Generating random color.  Not that hard, simply check the color basics post and from there use the random method to generate new colors.

To display colour on a computer screen you need to control three settings: Red, Green and Blue (RGB).  The values run from 0 through to 255. So if all three colours are set to zero (0, 0 , 0) there is no light so the object on screen will be black....

In my last post I used an example of screen wrapping in my script and wanted to talk about it a bit more.  Screen wrapping is the good old effect you get when pacman exits the screen from the left and re-enters fromt he right.  The detection...

Using Flash 8 filters in 3D worlds can create unexpected results.  In the following exampel I took the 3D circle rotation script and added a drop shadow filter.  Nothing particular but you should notice the shifting of the inner drop shaddow...

In this example we control the following Bevel filter parameters via the 3D z value. The code takes the 3D pullthrough v1 script and animates the bevels.

The following example takes the 3D pullthrough v1 script and animates the glow by adding the following lines. var glow = new GlowFilter(); clip.tempFilter = clip.filters; clip.tempFilter.push(glow); The other available filters are...

Now that Flash 8 supports filters, The extra burden of importing graphics to create blur effects has been eliminated. You can access the new filters through the import flash.filters.BlurFilter ActionScript. The following example takes the 3D pullthrough...

Creating dynamic menus in often necessitates rollOver, rollOff and onClick status. Creating this type of of an effect is standard when doing sites in HTML via CSS.  To get Flash up to par, I wrote the following script.  Dynamic text inside...

When working with 3D worlds, navigation is always BIG issue.  People want to navigate while moving their mouse around, yet they seem unaware of how sensitive the mouse really is.  The following examples generates smooth mouse tracking...

How many times have you built something in Flash, tested it a million times or more, have it work great, and then fail as soon as you put it online, or outside the Flash IDE ? You then go back to your local version, test some more, and begin throwing...