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Some links…

Posted on April 4, 2009 by tkuyanov

Just some links i found useful/interesting:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm#ActionScript_Basics

easy to understand tutorials on AS3, examples code included…

http://englishblog.flepstudio.org/

some more tutorials, Italiano style :)

http://krazydad.com/bestiary/

Krazy Dad will show you some stuff there…especialy for girls;) (joke, no porno)

http://www.uncontrol.com/

if you was wondering about generative art in Flash(like me), check this out, some neat examples…

http://books.google.com/books?id=nzyu5TytMEUC&pg=PA238&lpg=PA238&dq=multiple+collisions+as3&source=bl&ots=Rdp-vwmrWW&sig=XcqGQsT_jZVcjtAPfPIbRH2ovs8&hl=en&ei=QOnUScj3OoTX-Aa5yMmbCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9#PPA239,M1

oops, this one little bit too long, but worth it, sample from Keith Peters’ Foundation Action Script 3 Animation book, chapter about multiple-object collision detection methods…very nice book…

http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/

Daniel Shiffman’s Nature of Code blog, not about Flash really, but check it anyway…

That’s it for now, must go back to work on my super-project called “Green Spots!!!” :)))

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Processing.as is a port of the Processing programming language to ActionScript. It includes a fully functional parser and evaluator, as well as an API layer, to run many existing and new Processing scripts.

To check out Processing.as in action, take a look at the following examples:

http://code.google.com/p/processingas/

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Flash for surface computing

Posted on March 26, 2009 by tkuyanov

In recent years, surface computing has gained a lot of steam. “Surface computing” is a broad term that is promoted by proponents of large-screen interactive display technologies. Several such technologies have been developed, including Perceptive Pixel from Jeff Han (NYU), reacTIVision from reactable, Touchlib and OpenTouch from NUI group, and Microsoft Surface from Microsoft Research…

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/edu/articles/manvesh-vyas.html

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Flare. Data visualisation in Flash.

Posted on March 26, 2009 by tkuyanov

http://flare.prefuse.org/

Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. Even better, flare features a modular design that lets developers create customized visualization techniques without having to reinvent the wheel.

Flare looks extremely useful for anyone who is interested in developing interactive visualizations (e.g. time series, stacked bar, pie charts, graph) for the Web that run in the Adobe Flash player.

Tutorial:

http://flare.prefuse.org/tutorial