Had a quick idea for a variation on Word Clock. Go to the download page.
A small tutorial on how to create bouncing balls with ActionScript source code. A couple of years back I was creating some interactive sites using bouncing balls as navigation. These needed to behave in a believable manner so I spent some time looking at rigid body dynamics code.
Most designers and programmers whose paths I’ve crossed have heard of PostScript but don’t know much about it. I think it’s a hidden gem. Not only is it a fascinating programming language which can be used to create generative drawings and save you hours of time through automation, but you can also use it as [...]
[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 going to [...]
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 kindly ask that [...]
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.
So I have reach a dead-end in Flash. I now have a Screensavr that works perfectly, honouring all image proportions. Looks great, but runs slowly in Flash as it can’t handle so many individual images as the bitmap processing isn’t sophisticated enough; had to make it so that each row is a series of MovieClips [...]
This is impressive work.
“An open-source Flex library for browser URL control via deep linking which I have developed in collaboration with Todd Rein of Adobe.”
I’ve recently written something similar for Flash 8 (we’re yet to have clients that are ready for Flash 9 / Flex). I discovered this afterwards: it produces automatically generated [...]
So while I build up the energy to sort out the flickr Screensavr, I thought I’d upload the screen saver version of Word Clock. Nothing to configure here - just download and install.
Download Word Clock installer for Mac