Mike T. Henderson

This experiment illustrates the angles of circular movement in Flash, while mirroring those angles on the opposite side of the circle. I have two mirrored movements here. The first movement being a Sprite that mirrors the mouse’s position on the opposite side of the circle, while snapping to the boundaries of that circle. Then a second Sprite, that mirrors the mouse’s position on the opposite side of the circle, but instead shares the same distance of the mouse from the center point.

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While recently working with the NetStream class, I was surprised to learn that there was no preset method in place for maintaining the pixel aspect ratio. The situation I faced was that I was building a video player that needed to host both 4:3 and 16:9 ratios. However if the Video object's dimensions are preset to that of a 16:9 ratio, and a video with a 4:3 ratio is loaded in, instead of the clip maintaining shape and centering within the video object, it instead flushes with the edges of the 16:9 dimensions.

Makes sense, right? In reality it's doing what I ask. It's displaying the video at the dimensions I specified. However, it's distorting the the video in the same process.

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The BitmapData.getPixel method is a pretty interesting method. In previous posts I've experimented, using the number it returns, to scale, rotate, move, and in my last post, create a halftone pattern.

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Expanding on my previous experiment, using the BitmapData.getPixel and PerlinNoise to scale a Sprite based on the color info of a defined pixel, I noticed that it seemed to be creating this halftone pattern with the different scaling. Where in the previous I applied to an PerlinNoise pattern, here I thought I'd apply to an image.

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A while back I created a little ActionScript 3 class, using the ExternalInterface.call method, that returns a query string value from the url. This came in pretty handy for things such as direct linking to certain videos within a video player, displaying campaign specific content on load based on different referring sites, ect, etc.

Upon second glance, I realized that I got a little loop-happy with the previous attempt. Below is a slimmer version with the redundancies taken out.

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