Archive for the 'Programming' Category



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

Word Clock: screen saver

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


27 January 2007 in ActionScript, Screensaver / 2 Comments

Screensavr alpha

So here it is. More fiddly than I was anticipating. You must first enter your flickr user-name into the control panel.
Download Mac installer 0.0.2alpha
No Windows version, I don’t have the power. Or the inclination.
Image courtesy of jaypeg.


21 January 2007 in ActionScript, Screensaver / 21 Comments

Screensavr

Hah! See what I did there? It’s a flickr-based screensaver. This is some old slideshow code I had lying around, a nice way to view a stream of images as they scroll by. In these new days of the internet it seemed appropriate for it to read a flickr photostream. It will be available on [...]


20 January 2007 in ActionScript, Screensaver / No Comments

Magnetic site

The site using the magnetic code is now live…at last!
The magnetic code sits at the core of a structurally complex site which was built by the rest of the Tonic Flash crew. They implemented full browser history, bookmarking and deep-linking which is a joy to use.
www.thejunglegroup.com


16 January 2007 in ActionScript, Tonic / No Comments

Flash 9: Magnetic

At tonic I was recently working on a project for a client where we wanted to get across the idea of different teams working on individual projects. I came up with the idea of magnetic navigation, which attracts a different group of people appropriate to the selected project.
There were a few ways of achieving this; [...]


26 November 2006 in AS3, ActionScript, Tonic / No Comments

Vector Field

Vector field proof of concept in Flash 8. Uses displacement map as a ‘cheap’ vector field - providing you’re not expecting miracles it works quite well. The colours mix together naturally which is a nice side effect of the filter.


15 July 2006 in ActionScript, Tonic / 1 Comment

Elastic Collision

Very basic elastic collision-based rigid body dynamics.


15 June 2006 in ActionScript / No Comments

Spiro

Flash 6 Spirograph. An old spirograph drawing thing, based on some of the machines in the Science Museum. A Flash 8/9 version would be much faster.


15 October 2005 in ActionScript / No Comments

Word Clock

Typographic clock using words rather than digits. First appeared on Tonic homepage, subsequently shown on BD4D and at the Science Museum. Physical version is in progress…


5 January 2003 in ActionScript, Tonic / 3 Comments