Author Archives: Nuno Correia

Flash and Facebook

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Nuno Correia

Adobe is now pushing Flash as a development tool for building Facebook apps, with the new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook/

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Flash sound update

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Nuno Correia

About a year ago I posted about the new sound capabilities in Flash player 10: http://mlab.taik.fi/mediacode/archives/110 It seemed to be a direct result of the “Adobe Make Some Noise” campaign: http://www.make-some-noise.info/ Although the results were not what was expected originally, … Continue reading →

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Flash Sound Visualizer Links

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Nuno Correia

Some assorted links of examples, tutorials and reflections regarding sound visualizers in Flash: 1. Tutorials http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000296.html http://www.ultrashock.com/tutorials/flash8/spectrum.php http://www.thetechlabs.com/sound/create-a-as3-flash-9-mp3-player-with-spectrum-display/ http://www.thetechlabs.com/3d/create-a-as3-mp3-player-with-papervision3d-spectrum-display/ http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=8E9A0 2. Examples with source code http://www.terrypaton.com/as3-sound-spectrum/ http://www.anttikupila.com/flash/revolt-actionscript-3-based-spectrum-analyzer-source-released/ http://labs.blitzagency.com/?p=118 http://clockmaker.jp/blog-en/2008/11/pv3d_visualizer/ 3. Links to visualizers http://diaghe.com/blog/?p=19 http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/10/as3_music_visua.html http://theflashblog.com/?p=197 4. Discussion http://www.ultrashock.com/forums/actionscript/as3-soundmixer-computespectrum-82605.html http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=176574 … 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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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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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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Conduit for Flash Pixel Bender

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Nuno Correia

From http://lacquer.fi/conduit/pixelbender/ (via Timur Kuyanov): The latest Flash Player version 10 introduces a powerful new feature: Pixel Bender shaders. Using shaders you can bypass Flash’s built-in image effects and blending modes and instead manipulate pixels at will. Shaders are rendered … Continue reading →

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Flash and the iPhone – opportunities and threats

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Nuno Correia

Adobe is working with Apple on bringing Flash support to the iPhone: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a19HIOO8r_6c&refer=home On the other hand, WebKit now supports explicit animations in CSS, which will mean increased competition for Flash: http://webkit.org/blog/324/css-animation-2/

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