Archive for May, 2007


26 May 2007
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[ZIP] Download Pottery with source code To use: draw a simple ‘S’ shape on the left-hand panel. Then experiment. Note that it’s fairly crude and only renders convex surfaces properly. This was a quick mockup I made at the end of last year to try out an idea for a Christmas Card. It was originally [...]


13 May 2007
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I’ve been making blue-prints / cyanotypes of various kinds for quite a while. The appeal has always been to make photos without using lenses or carefully controlled photographic processes. I’ve never been a big fan of photography; the equipment and techniques are now so honed and precise leading the majority of photographs to appear somewhat [...]


12 May 2007
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I’ve decided to start releasing bits and pieces of source code just for fun. The first one is the Vector Field demo I wrote ages ago. First, the source code [ZIP] Download Vector Field source code It’s easy to change the size, colour and ‘splat’ graphics. This is totally free for non-commercial use, but I [...]


12 May 2007
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One of the problems I had when writing Flash Screensavr was sharing preferences between two separate and different SWF files – the Preferences panel and the Screensaver itself. Obviously a job for SharedObject. However there is a trick to creating a SharedObject that behaves how you’d expect.