Monthly Archives: March 2009

ProcessingAS

Posted on March 27, 2009 by tkuyanov

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 … Continue reading →

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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), … Continue reading →

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Course files 2009-03

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Nuno Correia

The course files can be downloaded (or viewed, in the case of .swf´s) from here: http://mlab.taik.fi/mediacode/coursefiles/course_2009_03/ All old course files can be found here: http://mlab.taik.fi/mediacode/coursefiles/ Today were will continue this exercise we started yesterday, students who didn’t come yesterday can … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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Open-Source Web Graphics

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Nuno Correia

Mozilla, Google Back New Plan for Open-Source Web Graphics From Wired: http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/mozilla-google.html

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Just Want to Share This – Play Auditorium

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Shanfan

http://www.playauditorium.com/ don’t know if some one had posted it here before. But it’s too beautiful to neglect. :) How did they create those spray photons?

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Papervision3D

Posted on March 24, 2009 by tkuyanov

http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/ http://blog.papervision3d.org/   Flash have some tools for manipulating 2D data in 3D space, but for real 3D, check this one.

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3D in Flash CS4

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Nuno Correia

Using 3d in Flash, both as timeline animation and using ActionScript, is now very simple. Check out this Adobe article: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/3d_support.html

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Multimedia Authoring, part 2: 3-4/2009

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Nuno Correia

The second part of the course focuses on multimedia authoring with interactive and generative media, using Flash and ActionScript. Additionally, it explores managing external media and data. It also contextualizes Flash and ActionScript within multimedia authoring and object-oriented programming. Students … Continue reading →

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Microsoft launches Silverlight 3

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Nuno Correia

It seems that finally Silverlight will be a worthy competitor to Flash. From Webmonkey: The new beta shows off new hardware integration, interactive controls and the ability to download Silverlight applications to your desktop. Silverlight 3 takes advantage of the … Continue reading →

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