Actionscript - Ian Thomas

Particle Swarm Experiment 3

The little experiment now has multiple modes and a little system for sequencing them. I think this might be as far as I take this for now, but may end up coming back to it to add some new bits and pieces. Particle Swarm 3 The code is pretty straightforward

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Particle Swarm Experiment part 2

I'm starting to pull the particles experiment into some form of shape now so it's possible to visualise the underlying shape a bit better. I've also tightened up the colour scheme a little bit rather than just using random values. Main.swf Download this

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A happy accident

Whilst playing with extending the HYPE framework I stumbled across this happy accident. It's not really what I'd intended the piece to do, but I think it looks really cool anyway. Main.swf Download this file I'm using the ObjectPool along

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40 000 Particles with a Perlin Flow Field using Actionscript

Sounds really exciting doesn't it but what you see below you is the result of little experiment to see how many particles my computer could handle at a decent frame-rate. I got up to 75 000 before it started to chug but for the sake of demonstration

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Some special artwork produced using Flash, AS3 and the HYPE framework

<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> Above is some artwork that I've been creating using Flash, AS3 and the HYPE Framework (www.hypeframework.com). It's a one-off piece and it's the first print I will have ever had professionally printed. Fingers crossed that it comes out looking

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Christmas is coming!! Sneak peek of an Augmented Reality Christmas Tree

This is something I've been doing at work and at home as a sort of cross over project. It's not the end product but a proof of concept really. Looking forward to getting round a table with the movers and shakers of Coolpink to thrash out where we want to

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Flying in strips

I made this little demo after seeing the effect on another website and wondered if I could re-create it. In a nutshell, the picture is chopped into angled strips (the angle is set in the code) and then each strip is flown in randomly to create quite

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Is the best framework no framework?

Next week marks my first full year in a digital agency and also my first full year working with Flash. Prior to 2008 I'd never really touched Actionscript, tweens or movieclips so it's been a bit of a whirlwind getting to where I am now! <p

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Advanced Papervision3D training in London with Carlos Ulloa

Last week Carlos Ulloa gave an intensive course on Advanced Papervision3D and I was one of the lucky seven that attended.Carlos started off by explaining that he'd done big lectures, medium lectures and was now trying a different format as working with a large number of attendees often proved

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FDT, where have you been all my life?

I think a lot of people in the Flash community might well roll their eyes at this post but basically I've got to share the awesomeness that is FDT. I took a little trip to London this week (more about that in another post) to take part in a two