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Snow! AS3 filters and performance tests

July 22, 2009

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Inspired by the falling snow in the third epsode of Mushishi: “Tender horns” I decided that a snow generator might be a nice benchmarker for several items: Using filters Addressing a LOT of particles Exploring the boundries of AS3 performance and looping through arrays Why snow? Snow is reasonably limited in its behaviour and nice […]

Fun with Flash and Flickr Interestingness

July 22, 2009

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“A photographic mosaic is a picture, divided into rectangular (or square) sections, each of which is replaced with another photograph of appropriate average color“. (Wikipedia) When I saw the first one (a portrait of a woman with many other portraits inside) somewhere in the 90’s I was blown away by the concept. Only recently I […]

Combined shapes, surfaces and strategies for drawing

July 21, 2009

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A client I work for offers a tool in Flash with which you can draw complex shapes. Each of these shapes represents a “building”. When you draw, the line-tool you draw with automatically snaps to existing lines and nodes so that closed shapes can be created. Each shape receives a fill. This fill is based […]

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Peter Kaptein is an ICT professional, building things in Flash, .NET and involved in the Roomware Project. Next to this blog he also writes about Roomware and related items in his Beyond the Keyboard blog.

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