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Interactive and generative media authoring

Multimedia Development – new online materials for learning Flash and ActionScript

In August, I developed 3 “learning objects” related to Flash and ActionScript, entitled “Multimedia Development”:
http://multimediadev.wordpress.com/

This is similar to an online course (although allowing for self-exploration), and somehow adapts some of the lessons I’ve been teaching in my latest Flash-related courses. It has been commissioned by Tallinn University. Check it out if you want to learn Flash/ActionScript 3, or if you are just curious. Feedback is welcome.

Eaze Tween – Flash AS3 tweening library

Eaze Tween is a “smart, fast, chainable and compact Flash AS3 tweening library”.

Link to the library:
http://code.google.com/p/eaze-tween/

Link to a post about Eaze at the developer’s blog:
http://philippe.elsass.me/2009/11/as3-eaze-tween-library-update/

A project built with Eaze and TUIO:
http://techsparked.com/application/as3-tuio-hypeeaze-particles

Beyond HTML5: experiments with interactive audio

The combination of HTML5, JavaScript and the evolution of browsers will allow for audio manipulation and visualization similar to what can today be achieved with Flash.

David Humphrey has been experimenting on top of Mozilla’s extensible platform. His explorations can be found at the Mozilla Hacks Blog:

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/04/beyond-html5-experiments-with-interactive-audio/

More on David’s experiments with audio:
http://vocamus.net/dave/?cat=25

Other articles mentioning this:
http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/05/new-html5-tools-make-your-browser-sing-and-dance/
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/05/03/real-sound-synthesis-now-an-open-standard-in-the-browser/
http://createdigitalmotion.com/2010/05/3d-sound-now-in-the-browser-and-processing-js/

One example, quoted from Mozilla Hacks: “(…) done by Jacob Seidelin, and shows many cool 2D visualizations of audio using our API. You can see the live version on his site, or check out this video:”

Nihilogic’s HTML5 Audio-Data Visualizations from Bocoup on Vimeo.

Google Chrome browser integrates Flash plug-in

Interesting news on the Adobe vs Apple vs Google saga: Google Chrome browser now integrates Flash plug-in:
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/03/dev-channel-update_30.html

Coordinate Tracker

http://mlab.taik.fi/mediacode/coursefiles/course_2010_01/projects/sara_jacobsen/coordinates.swf

This exercise is part of an environmental management project I am building for DVD seminar.

Project posts – links and recommendations

To the Multimedia Authoring course participants:

Again, thanks for your enthusiasm and great projects!

As you can see in the previous post, I’ve uploaded documentation videos to Vimeo, and photos to Flickr. I’ve also uploaded screenshots of your projects, to the respective project folders.

What I’d like from each of you:

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Course ended / projects / documentation

The Multimedia Authoring Course (2010) has ended. Thank you to all participants.

The projects can be found in this link (source code included):
http://mlab.taik.fi/mediacode/coursefiles/course_2010_01/projects/

Videos of the project presentations can be found here:
http://www.vimeo.com/album/177582

And photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nunocorreia/sets/72157623249650673/

[flickr album=72157623249650673 num=30 size=Square]

Flint Particle System

This is a good resource for particle emitter libraries. They also supply good documentation, examples and a useful tutorial that covers the basics.

http://flintparticles.org/

“Throw” tutorial with physics behavior

From gotoAndLearn.com: a video tutorial for creating a “throwable” slider, with physics behavior (source file available):

http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=81

Recent interactive online music projects @ Rhizome

Reposted from my blog:

Rhizome.org has recently showcased several interactive online music projects (mostly built with Flash):

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