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Pottery

[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 [...]


26 May 2007 in ActionScript, Source Code / 2 Comments

Vector Field with source code

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 [...]


12 May 2007 in ActionScript, Source Code / 3 Comments

Shared SharedObject in Flash

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.


12 May 2007 in ActionScript, Source Code / 2 Comments

Visual Studio Express

Having recently parted with my aging G4 PowerBook and upgraded to an entry-level MacBook, I couldn’t resist the temptation to install Windows XP (spit!). Well, it’s good for games at least.
I was also excited to discover a free version of Visual Studio called Visual Studio Express. Have only played with the tutorials but have to [...]


26 March 2007 in General, Windows / No Comments

Yahoo Apps

Screensavr has been Approved by the Authorities and is available on Yahoo Apps. Does this mean I’m now a fully qualified geek?


26 March 2007 in Cocoa, General, Screensaver / 1 Comment

Gravity

I once did a quick experiment into creating drawings from nothing but code, but based on natural phenomena. The first thing I tried was gravity and it gave some results which I really liked. Here are the PostScript drawings it made.
As I’m on a bit of a Cocoa Screensaver mission at the moment I spent [...]


18 March 2007 in Cocoa, Screensaver / No Comments

Screensavr

So here it is, one month on: the first Mac-native Cocoa version. Built on ObjectiveFlickr.
[ZIP] Download for Mac (Universal)


4 March 2007 in Cocoa, Screensaver / 4 Comments

Word Clock: update

New version, Mac native code this time. Thanks to Andy and Jay for suggestions: now you can choose your own colours and font. Not that there was anything wrong with my choices. Planning to add finer typographic control in future, but for now… enjoy playing with the leading.
Visit Word Clock’s permanent home


25 February 2007 in Cocoa, Screensaver / 6 Comments

Screensavr: dead-end, new beginning

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 [...]


4 February 2007 in ActionScript, Screensaver / 8 Comments

UrlKit

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 [...]


31 January 2007 in AS3, ActionScript / 2 Comments