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Have you ever had to deal with the hassle of centering modal windows? I made this function to automagically center windows I call this function after I load a modal and it centers the object perfectly for every browser. It takes the hassle of wondering if something is perfectly center in every browser. The only thing I do to use it is send it the main containing div that the object should be centered in and the div that I want to be centered. It grabs the offset does a little basic math and that’s it. No more hassle with centering now it will be perfectly centered.

?View Code JAVASCRIPTfunction CenterIT(mainModal, mainContainer) { var modalW = $(mainModal).width() / 2; var windowW = $(mainContainer).width() / 2; var modalH = $(mainModal).height() / 2; var windowH = $(mainContainer).height() / 2; var centerPointW = windowW - modalW; var centerPointH = windowH - modalH; var myPoint = $(mainContainer).offset(); centerPointW = myPoint.left + centerPointW; centerPointH = myPoint.top + centerPointH; $(mainModal).css('left', centerPointW); $(mainModal).css('top', centerPointH);
}

Some Useful/Interesting Flash Links: Prefab – Highly useful tool when it comes to 3D in flash with Away3D Snook on HTML5 and Adobe Some Useful/Interesting JavaScript Links: Javascript RayCaster Burst Engine for SVG in JavaScript Canvas 3D JS3D library Parallax in CSS WebGL Example Bookmark and Share More »Powered by Bookmarkify™

February 7 2010, 4:37pm | Comments »

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404 Errors Hyped With PaperVision3d pt. 2

http://i-create.org/2010/02/07/404-errors-hyped-with-papervision3d-pt-2/

Capture URL for search with JavaScript and Pass it to Flash Search Google from URL parsing Use of Random Range Create an Array of Spheres that holds the Google results Apply the title field to a Text3D and add that as a child to the Sphere Apply an Event to the Sphere to navigate to the Google result. How to trace out events from flash to Firebug

This tutorial uses the following libraries of code: Hype PaperVision3d googleas3api I chose to omit the parallax effect. You can find an excellent example of the parallax effect on gotoandlearn.com, .Net , and web designer magazine. I might modify this swf later to have youtube results and render them as planes. If you go to seacloud9.org and look for a page that you know is not on that web server it will serve up google results and display them in three dimensions randomly. This page is distracting on purpose but It was kind of fun to make. You can go to the page results by clicking on the sphere. You can move the viewport of the search results by moving the sliders. JavaScript to retrieve the url location and parse it:

?View Code JAVASCRIPT var gResult; var gResultL; function getQueryString(){ var qString = [removed]; myReg = new RegExp("http://seacloud9.org/"); var url = qString.href.replace(myReg, ""); return url; } function googleResultArray(googleResult){ gResult = googleResult; } function getGoogleTitle(titleNum){ return gResult[titleNum]; }

ActionScript 3 Code behind for SWF all Google Search code and Debugging

?View Code ACTIONSCRIPTpackage { import flash.display.*; import flash.events.*; import flash.events.Event; import flash.filters.BitmapFilterQuality; import flash.filters.BlurFilter; import fl.transitions.*; import flash.media.Sound; import flash.net.URLLoader; import flash.net.URLRequest; import flash.net.URLRequestMethod; import flash.net.navigateToURL; import org.papervision3d.cameras.Camera3D; import org.papervision3d.objects.primitives.Plane; import org.papervision3d.objects.primitives.Sphere; import org.papervision3d.render.BasicRenderEngine; import org.papervision3d.scenes.Scene3D; import org.papervision3d.view.Viewport3D; import org.papervision3d.typography.Font3D; import org.papervision3d.typography.Text3D; import org.papervision3d.materials.BitmapFileMaterial; import org.papervision3d.materials.special.Letter3DMaterial; import org.papervision3d.typography.fonts.HelveticaBold; import org.papervision3d.materials.MovieMaterial; import org.papervision3d.materials.*; import org.papervision3d.events.InteractiveScene3DEvent; import hype.framework.core.TimeType; import hype.framework.rhythm.SimpleRhythm; import hype.framework.sound.SoundAnalyzer; import org.papervision3d.lights.PointLight3D; import org.papervision3d.materials.shadematerials.CellMaterial; import flash.external.ExternalInterface; import be.boulevart.google.events.*; import be.boulevart.google.ajaxapi.search.web.*; import be.boulevart.google.ajaxapi.search.web.data.*; import be.boulevart.google.ajaxapi.search.*; public class e404 extends MovieClip { public var viewport:Viewport3D; public var scene:Scene3D; public var camera:Camera3D; public var viewport2:Viewport3D; public var scene2:Scene3D; public var camera2:Camera3D; public var plane:Plane; public var plane2:Plane; public var plane3:Plane; public var sphere:Sphere; public var font3d:Font3D; public var text3d:Text3D; public var fontMat:Letter3DMaterial; private var cell:CellMaterial; private var sphereArr:Array; public var light:PointLight3D; public var renderer:BasicRenderEngine; public var renderer2:BasicRenderEngine; public var googleTitle:Array = new Array(); public var googleLink:Array = new Array(); public var googleWebSearch:GoogleWebSearch=new GoogleWebSearch(); public var googURL:URLRequest; public function e404():void { addEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, e404Go ); } private function onWebResults(e:GoogleSearchEvent):void { var resultObject:GoogleSearchResult=e.data as GoogleSearchResult; ExternalInterface.call( "console.log" ,"Estimated Number of Results: "+resultObject.estimatedNumResults); ExternalInterface.call( "console.log" ,"Current page index: "+resultObject.currentPageIndex); ExternalInterface.call( "console.log" ,"Number of pages: "+resultObject.numPages); for each (var result:GoogleWebItem in resultObject.results) { googleTitle.push(result.title); googURL = new URLRequest (result.url); googleLink.push(googURL); ExternalInterface.call( "console.log" ,"link:"+result.url+"title:"+result.title ); } ExternalInterface.call( "googleResultArray" , googleTitle ); //build 3d world now that we have our google search! init3D(); createSearch(); addEventListeners(); } private function onAPIError(evt:GoogleAPIErrorEvent):void { trace("An API error has occured: " + evt.responseDetails, "responseStatus was: " + evt.responseStatus); } public function e404Go(e:Event):void { removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,e404Go ); // Create the container Sprite stage.scaleMode=StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE; stage.align=StageAlign.TOP_LEFT; //this javascript function returns the query string from the window location googleWebSearch.search(ExternalInterface.call( "getQueryString" ),0,"english"); googleWebSearch.addEventListener(GoogleAPIErrorEvent.API_ERROR,onAPIError); googleWebSearch.addEventListener(GoogleSearchEvent.WEB_SEARCH_RESULT,onWebResults); } private function init3D():void { // VIEWPORT viewport=new Viewport3D(0,0,true,false); viewport2=new Viewport3D(stage.width,stage.height,true,true); addChild( viewport ); addChild( viewport2 ); // // RENDERER renderer = new BasicRenderEngine(); renderer2 = new BasicRenderEngine(); // // SCENE scene = new Scene3D(); scene2 = new Scene3D(); // // CAMERA camera = new Camera3D(); camera.zoom=11; camera.focus=100; camera2 = new Camera3D(); camera2.zoom=11; camera2.focus=100; } private function createSearch():void { // Set some colors so we can see if loading is still happening, // or if it failed BitmapFileMaterial.LOADING_COLOR=0x000000; BitmapFileMaterial.ERROR_COLOR=0xFF0000; // var material:BitmapFileMaterial=new BitmapFileMaterial("404e.png"); material.doubleSided=true; var material2:BitmapFileMaterial=new BitmapFileMaterial("404e2.png"); material2.doubleSided=true; var material3:ColorMaterial=new ColorMaterial(0xFC0606,.3); material3.doubleSided=true; light=new PointLight3D(true); light.z=0; light.y=randomRange(-30,280); light.x=randomRange(-350,500); // plane=new Plane(material,300,100,10,10); plane.x=-350; plane.y=265; // Second ViewPort objects sphere and text from google sphereArr = new Array(); for (var i:int = 0; i < googleTitle.length; i++) { var myPattern:RegExp = /<b>/g; var myPattern2:RegExp = /<\/b>/g; var googSearch:String = new String(googleTitle[i].toString()); googSearch = googSearch.replace(myPattern, ""); googSearch = googSearch.replace(myPattern2, ""); sphere=new Sphere(buildCell(),randomRange(10,100),randomRange(5,20),10); sphere.x=randomRange(-500,500); sphere.y=randomRange(-500,500); sphere.z=randomRange(-500,500); try{ var colorPoolCell:Array = new Array(0x9F3F11, 0xFC0606, 0x9FC1BE, 0x787D29, 0xE0D4BA, 0x911F15, 0xBFCDF2, 0xF0EEF1); var colorID:int = randomRange(7, 0);
fontMat = new Letter3DMaterial(colorPoolCell[colorID]); font3d = new HelveticaBold(); text3d = new Text3D(googSearch, font3d, fontMat); text3d.x = sphere.x + googSearch.length + 10; text3d.y = sphere.y + 10; //text3d.z = sphere.z + 10; sphere.addChild(text3d); sphere.id = i; scene2.addChild( sphere ); sphereArr.push(sphere); } catch(e:Error){ // Sometimes the google title font3D will fail but we can catch it so it doesn't // have a nasty flash epic fail warning.. ExternalInterface.call( "console.log" , "Error Reached = " + e); } } //create the 3D planes for the first ViewPort plane2=new Plane(material2,300,100,10,10); plane2.x=-350; plane2.y=265; plane2.z=-60; plane3=new Plane(material3,800,150,10,10); plane3.x=-350; plane3.y=285; plane3.z=80; // scene.addChild( plane ); scene.addChild( plane2 ); scene.addChild( plane3 ); addListner(); } function addListner():void{ for(var i:int = 0; i < sphereArr.length; i++){ try{ sphereArr[i].addEventListener( InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_PRESS, callLink ); ExternalInterface.call( "console.log" , "Event Added" + i); }catch(e:Error){ ExternalInterface.call( "console.log" , e); } } } function callLink(e:InteractiveScene3DEvent):void { try { navigateToURL(googleLink[e.target.id], '_blank'); ExternalInterface.call( "console.log" , "link Clicked --" + e.target.id + "Link Called - " + googleLink[e.target.id]); } catch (err:Error) { ExternalInterface.call( "console.log" , err + " id: " + e.target.id + "Errored on: " + googleLink[e.target.id].toString() ); } } function buildCell():CellMaterial { var colorPoolCell:Array = new Array(0x9F3F11, 0xFC0606, 0x9FC1BE, 0x787D29, 0xE0D4BA, 0x911F15, 0xBFCDF2, 0xF0EEF1); var colorID:int = randomRange(7, 0); var colorID2:int = randomRange(7, 0); //random color material generation returns cellMaterial //cell=new CellMaterial(light,Math.round(Math.random()*0xFFFFFF),Math.round(Math.random()*0xFFFFFF),100); cell=new CellMaterial(light,colorPoolCell[colorID],colorPoolCell[colorID2],100); cell.interactive=true; return cell; } function randomRange(max:Number, min:Number = 0):Number { return Math.random() * (max - min) + min; } private function addEventListeners():void { addEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, __onEnterFrame ); } private function removeEventListeners():void { removeEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, __onEnterFrame ); } /*===================================================================\ ||Listener Functions || \===================================================================*/ private function __onEnterFrame( e:Event ):void { //moves the error planes viewort according to mouse position plane.rotationY=viewport.mouseX/4; plane.rotationX=viewport.mouseY/4; plane2.rotationY=viewport.mouseX/4; plane2.rotationX=viewport.mouseY/4; plane3.rotationY=viewport.mouseX/4; plane3.rotationX=viewport.mouseY/4; light.rotationX=viewport2.mouseY/4; light.rotationY=viewport2.mouseY/4; // sldWorld.addEventListener("change", updateWorldAxisValue); sldZoomCam.addEventListener("change", updateCamerValue); this.setChildIndex(sldWorld, this.numChildren-1); this.setChildIndex(sldZoomCam, this.numChildren-1); renderer.renderScene( scene, camera, viewport ); renderer2.renderScene( scene2, camera2, viewport2 ); } function updateWorldAxisValue(argument) { var sldWorld_value:Number=this.sldWorld.value; camera2.rotationY=sldWorld_value; } function updateCamerValue(argument) { var sldZoomCam_value:Number=this.sldZoomCam.value; camera2.zoom=sldZoomCam_value; } } }

ActionScript3 Timeline Code for Sound Analysis and Image Effects

?View Code ACTIONSCRIPTimport hype.extended.behavior.FunctionTracker; import hype.extended.behavior.Oscillator; import hype.extended.color.ColorPool; import hype.extended.layout.GridLayout; import hype.framework.display.BitmapCanvas; import hype.framework.sound.SoundAnalyzer; import hype.extended.behavior.FixedVibration; var myWidth = stage.stageWidth; var myHeight = stage.stageHeight; var clipCanvas:BitmapCanvas = new BitmapCanvas(myWidth, myHeight); addChild(clipCanvas); var clipContainer:Sprite = new Sprite(); var soundAnalyzer:SoundAnalyzer = new SoundAnalyzer(); soundAnalyzer.start(); var colorPool:ColorPool = new ColorPool( 0x9F3F11, 0xFC0606, 0x9FC1BE, 0x787D29, 0xE0D4BA, 0x911F15, 0xBFCDF2, 0xF0EEF1 ); // xStart, yStart, xSpacing, ySpacing, columns var layout:GridLayout = new GridLayout(0, myHeight / 2, 10, 0, 34); var numItems:int = 64; var freq:int = 120; for (var i:uint = 0; i < numItems; ++i) { var clip:MySquare = new MySquare(); layout.applyLayout(clip); colorPool.colorChildren(clip); // object, property, soundAnalyzer.getFrequencyRange, [startRange, endRange, min, max] var aTracker:FunctionTracker = new FunctionTracker(clip.myFill, "alpha", soundAnalyzer.getFrequencyRange, [i4, i4+4, 0.25, 1.0]); var sTracker:FunctionTracker = new FunctionTracker(clip.myFill, "scaleY", soundAnalyzer.getFrequencyRange, [i4, i4+4, 0.5, 30.0]); aTracker.start(); sTracker.start(); // target Object, property, waveFunction, frequency, min, max, start value var yOsc:Oscillator = new Oscillator(clip, "y", Oscillator.sineWave, freq, 60, 600, i/(180/2));
yOsc.start(); clipContainer.addChild(clip); } clipCanvas.startCapture(clipContainer, true); var sound:Sound = new Sound(); sound.load(new URLRequest("http://i-create.org/actionscript/404e/shortCircuitE1.mp3")); sound.play(); var aVibration:FixedVibration = new FixedVibration(cBagHead, "alpha", 0.9, 0.1, 0.0, 1.0, false); aVibration.start();

You find working examples of this 404 error page working at the following location: http://seacloud9.org/Processing.org http://seacloud9.org/Context Free Art http://seacloud9.org/Generative Art A few articles that are good reads: Web development will become much more complicated The Future of Web Content Bookmark and Share More »Powered by Bookmarkify™

February 7 2010, 12:14pm | Comments »

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PreFab3D Air tool for augmented workflow export to #as3 #awesome

http://www.closier.nl/prefab/

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3d
Flash
Air
away3d

February 6 2010, 9:39am | Comments »

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#Javascript #Raycaster

http://www.arguingwithmyself.com/archives/124-raycaster-version-5

February 4 2010, 3:04pm | Comments »

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Canvas 3d JS Library

http://www.c3dl.org/

February 4 2010, 8:55am | Comments »

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JS3D: 3d Javascript Graphics Layer

http://www.wxs.ca/js3d/#demos

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3d
javascript

February 4 2010, 8:52am | Comments »

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Reloaded..

http://i-create.org/2010/01/29/reloaded/

Quick Tip: Utilize Firebug with ActionScript to trace out tough Bugs Add the import statment at the Top and then call it anywhere Handy:) Note I was having troubles getting it to work with Firebug 1.5 but on Firebug 1.4.5 works like a charm!

?View Code ACTIONSCRIPTimport flash.external.ExternalInterface; ExternalInterface.call( "console.log" , "Omaha Winter. Camera Z:" + cam.z);

The example below will show it in action if you have Firebug 1.4.5 I will print out a message. This example was built off of Away3d use your arrow keys to move and your “w” and “s” key to zoom. On a side note – I am looking forward to reading the Essential Guide to 3D in flash it goes over the Away3D engine indepth

Reloaded I have been making style changes and I am not done with making those changes; I am just glad the old version is gone for good! I have been very busy at work and working on several other websites simultaneously. I have been working on my wordpress blog lately and rearranged some things. First of all this blog will NO LONGER Supports IE6 on purpose! I personally have a great disdain for IE6 and I don’t want to spend my free time programming for it unless it is absolutely required. In short this browser is no longer supported and this is for many reasons so many that I can’t post them all here. So if your using IE6 or lower please upgrade and you might even want to try something new like Chrome or Firefox both of these browsers in my opinion are better suited for the web. I really just wanted to make my blog brighter and more easily read. I also need to make the loading a little more graceful I just simply haven’t had the time yet. I guess, I will just apply agile and continually improve it:) I will be updating my 404 Error tutorials soon maybe even this weekend if I get ahead. I have been spending my time working on redoing my interactive portfolio. I have also been experimenting with Processing on Android and my initial reaction to programming with Processing and Android in my opinion have been very positive. I have a couple of books that I have been reading and I might put together a video tutorial of my new apps I have been working on. I am also really looking forward to Verizon updating to Android 2.1! Processing / Android kit targets 2.0 and higher. I think Android has lots of potential for developers in my opinion it is an excellent time to be a developer things are really booming and changing in the tech industry and they will trickle down to everyday life and really change the way people go about everyday tasks. Reading lately: The Essential Guide to Processing for the Flash Developer Tutorial on Away3D Bookmark and Share More »Powered by Bookmarkify™

January 28 2010, 9:56pm | Comments »

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Experiments in the Third Dimension: FIVe3D

http://pixelwelders.com/blog/3d/2008/experiments-in-the-third-dimension-five3d/

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3d
Flash

January 25 2010, 4:58pm | Comments »

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AS3 Water Effects in Papervision 3D, Away3D and Sandy3D

http://drawlogic.com/2008/03/21/papervision-3d-water-effects/

January 21 2010, 10:29am | Comments »

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OpenGL ES Tutorial for Android – Part I – Setting up the view | Jayway Team Blog - Sharing Experience

http://blog.jayway.com/2009/12/03/opengl-es-tutorial-for-android-part-i/

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3d
android
opengl

January 17 2010, 7:08am | Comments »

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The Categorized OpenGL ES Tutorial Collection | iPhone Development Tutorials and Programming Tips

http://maniacdev.com/2009/09/the-categorized-opengl-es-tutorial-collection/

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3d
iphone
opengl

January 17 2010, 7:06am | Comments »

I posted to i-create.org

404 Errors Hyped With PaperVision3d

http://i-create.org/2009/12/20/404-errors-hyped-with-papervision3d/

404 Error Pages don’t have to be boring. Especially if you develop rich internet applications and have access to awesome tools like PaperVision3d and Hype! This is a two part example. This example just shows you simple code to create a planes in PaperVision3d make them follow your mouse. I also used SoundSnap to snag some short-circuit static for background noise. I also used Hype to analyze the sound this is literally an out of the box example of Hype. What is hype? Hype is a new framework for quickly putting together highly interactive eye-candy. Hype was created by Joshua Davis and Brendan Hall. It has special methods like Color Pool, Grids, Vibrations Effects, Sound Analysis, just to name a few in short its wicked cool. I am looking forward to playing around with it more it’s just a matter of finding the time. This was just something I was thinking about placing on my new interactive portfolio. I am going to create a 404 page that utilizes these libraries. This part only shows you the audio analysis, papervision3d plane code, and vibration effect applied to a movie. In part two I will add a parallax effect to give this error page more depth. Mash it with a search that pulls results from i-create and also has hidden gems in it. I will hope to really dig into hype more. Sometimes it can be fun to make websites that are distracting on purpose read like a choose your own adventure album. I can show an example like this and now show you one of my favorite sites. You have to go out and check out ABC (Abnormal Behavior Child) I think he originally made this style and his site is setup more like a personal odyssey.

Code for the Class Code Behind:

?View Code ACTIONSCRIPTpackage { import flash.display.*; import flash.events.Event; import flash.net.URLLoader; import flash.net.URLRequest; import flash.events.*; import flash.filters.BitmapFilterQuality; import flash.filters.BlurFilter; import fl.transitions.*; import flash.events.Event; import flash.events.MouseEvent; import flash.media.Sound; import org.papervision3d.cameras.Camera3D; import org.papervision3d.objects.primitives.Plane; import org.papervision3d.render.BasicRenderEngine; import org.papervision3d.scenes.Scene3D; import org.papervision3d.view.Viewport3D; import org.papervision3d.materials.BitmapFileMaterial; import org.papervision3d.materials.MovieMaterial; import org.papervision3d.materials.*; import hype.framework.core.TimeType; import hype.framework.rhythm.SimpleRhythm; import hype.framework.sound.SoundAnalyzer; public class e404 extends MovieClip { public var viewport:Viewport3D; public var scene:Scene3D; public var camera:Camera3D; public var plane :Plane; public var plane2 :Plane; public var plane3 :Plane; public var renderer:BasicRenderEngine; public function e404():void { addEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, e404Go ); } public function e404Go(e:Event):void { removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,e404Go ); // Create the container Sprite stage.scaleMode=StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE; stage.align=StageAlign.TOP_LEFT; // init3D(); createPlane(); addEventListeners(); private function init3D():void { // VIEWPORT viewport=new Viewport3D(0,0,true,false); addChild( viewport ); // // RENDERER renderer = new BasicRenderEngine(); // // SCENE scene = new Scene3D(); // // CAMERA camera = new Camera3D(); camera.zoom=11; camera.focus=100; } private function createPlane():void { BitmapFileMaterial.LOADING_COLOR=0x000000; BitmapFileMaterial.ERROR_COLOR=0xFF0000; // var material:BitmapFileMaterial=new BitmapFileMaterial("404e.png"); material.doubleSided=true; var material2:BitmapFileMaterial=new BitmapFileMaterial("404e2.png"); material2.doubleSided=true; var material3:ColorMaterial=new ColorMaterial(0xFC0606,.6); material3.doubleSided=true; // plane=new Plane(material,300,100,10,10); plane.x=-350; plane.y=265; plane2=new Plane(material2,300,100,10,10); plane2.x=-350; plane2.y=265; plane2.z=-60; plane3=new Plane(material3,800,150,10,10); plane3.x=-350; plane3.y=285; plane3.z=80; // scene.addChild( plane ); scene.addChild( plane2 ); scene.addChild( plane3 ); } private function addEventListeners():void { addEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, __onEnterFrame ); } private function removeEventListeners():void { removeEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, __onEnterFrame ); } private function __onEnterFrame( e:Event ):void { plane.rotationY=viewport.mouseX/4; plane.rotationX=viewport.mouseY/4; plane2.rotationY=viewport.mouseX/4; plane2.rotationX=viewport.mouseY/4; plane3.rotationY=viewport.mouseX/4; plane3.rotationX=viewport.mouseY/4; // renderer.renderScene( scene, camera, viewport ); } } }

Below are the actions that are applied to the time-line with in the Movie

?View Code ACTIONSCRIPTimport hype.extended.behavior.FunctionTracker; import hype.extended.behavior.Oscillator; import hype.extended.color.ColorPool; import hype.extended.layout.GridLayout; import hype.framework.display.BitmapCanvas; import hype.framework.sound.SoundAnalyzer; import hype.extended.behavior.FixedVibration; var myWidth = stage.stageWidth; var myHeight = stage.stageHeight; var clipCanvas:BitmapCanvas = new BitmapCanvas(myWidth, myHeight); addChild(clipCanvas); var clipContainer:Sprite = new Sprite(); var soundAnalyzer:SoundAnalyzer = new SoundAnalyzer(); soundAnalyzer.start(); var colorPool:ColorPool = new ColorPool( 0x9F3F11, 0xFC0606, 0x9FC1BE, 0x787D29, 0xE0D4BA, 0x911F15, 0xBFCDF2, 0xF0EEF1 ); // xStart, yStart, xSpacing, ySpacing, columns var layout:GridLayout = new GridLayout(0, myHeight / 2, 10, 0, 34); var numItems:int = 64; var freq:int = 120; for (var i:uint = 0; i < numItems; ++i) { var clip:MySquare = new MySquare(); layout.applyLayout(clip); colorPool.colorChildren(clip); // object, property, soundAnalyzer.getFrequencyRange, [startRange, endRange, min, max] var aTracker:FunctionTracker = new FunctionTracker(clip.myFill, "alpha", soundAnalyzer.getFrequencyRange, [i4, i4+4, 0.25, 1.0]); var sTracker:FunctionTracker = new FunctionTracker(clip.myFill, "scaleY", soundAnalyzer.getFrequencyRange, [i4, i4+4, 0.5, 30.0]); aTracker.start(); sTracker.start(); // target Object, property, waveFunction, frequency, min, max, start value var yOsc:Oscillator = new Oscillator(clip, "y", Oscillator.sineWave, freq, 60, 600, i/(180/2)); yOsc.start(); clipContainer.addChild(clip); } clipCanvas.startCapture(clipContainer, true); var sound:Sound = new Sound(); sound.load(new URLRequest("shortCircuitE1.mp3")); sound.play(); var aVibration:FixedVibration = new FixedVibration(cBagHead, "alpha", 0.9, 0.1, 0.0, 1.0, false); aVibration.start();

Sometimes it can be fun to make something that is distracting. Kind of reminds me of my college days. Life drawing for about 3 hours(which beats the hell out of Biology and Business lectures) in the morning and then off to do some display work at the Hitchin Post a clothing store I worked at for years. I always had opportunities to use my creative skills with display work their. You know you’ve created great display work when people ask for things out of the window. Display work also used to make retail work easy people see something like it and want to buy hence you don’t need to talk to them. It can be fun to make things interactive! People like eye-candy. Anyway exercises like these help make you a little bit more creative. At least that was the case for these well known display artists Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. Anyway enough ranting it is Saturday night. I can’t wait until my Media Temple migration is complete and my new interactive portfolio is done. Than I can work on new projects. Ya thanks Josh and Brendan the Hype Framework is like an awesome set of paints! Cool Sites to Check Out: ABC Choose Your Own Adventure and Informatics Cool Frameworks to Check Out: PaperVision3D Hype Bookmark and Share More »Powered by Bookmarkify™

December 19 2009, 10:12pm | Comments »

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The Internet == ice9 for Business

http://i-create.org/2009/12/19/the-internet-is-equal-tooice9-for-business/

Ice-nine is a fictional material conceived by writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat’s Cradle. It is supposed to be a more stable polymorph of water than common ice (Ice Ih) which instead of melting at 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit), melts at 45.8°C (114.4°F). When ice-nine comes into contact with liquid water below 45.8°C (which is thus effectively supercooled), it acts as a seed crystal, and causes the solidification of the entire body of water which quickly crystallizes as ice-nine. A global catastrophe involving freezing the Earth’s oceans by simple contact with ice-nine is used as a plot device in Vonnegut’s novel. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine As technology progresses we will see more and more people using thin-client systems again. They will store data in the cloud and mobile devices will proliferate and rapidly change the landscape of personal computing small is the new big. Our cell phones will morph into powerful desktop like devices(oh and this is predictable just study

December 19 2009, 8:59pm | Comments »

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Ajaxian » 3D CSS Parallax Effect

http://ajaxian.com/archives/3dcss?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ajaxian+%28Ajaxian+Blog%29

3D CSS Parallax Effect

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3d
javascript
css

December 16 2009, 2:00pm | Comments »

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Messing about with the AS3DMod library | UltraVisual Blog

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