Below is a list of my favorite reads and resources from the week that was Jan 10th-14th.
Friday Reading
Jan 14 2011
Mike T. Henderson
Interactive Design & Art Direction
Resolutions for 2011
Jan 10 2011
Better late than never. Here are my resolutions for 2011.
Thinking the Unthinkable: How To Spark Disruptive Innovation
May 21 2010
Great day of sessions today at WebVisions. I particularly enjoyed the opening keynote by Luke Williams of Frog Design. The topic of his presentation was Thinking the Unthinkable: How To Spark Disruptive Innovation.
The key takeaway here: stop replicating and start innovating. By breaking traditional patterns, you can create an expectation gap, limit your competition, and leave others scrambling to catch up.
WebVisions Event
May 19 2010
I'm in Portland, Oregon this week attending the WebVisions Conference.
About WebVisions:
WebVisions explores the future of design, content creation, user experience and business strategy to uncover the trends and agents of change that will shatter your assumptions about the Web. Be ready to network, share ideas and be inspired by an all-star lineup of speakers.
AS3 Camera Motion Detection using BitmapData.threshold()
Dec 14 2009
The idea for this experiment was to detect the percentage of motion on camera from previous frame to current frame.
0 Posted under: BitmapData, Camera
Using String.search() in AS3: Determining Window Target in navigateToURL.
Jul 14 2009
I came across an instance the other day where I had a set of links; some of which where internal, while others where external. I wanted the internal links to open in the same window(target="self"), and the external links to open in a new window/tab(target="blank"). Since I was loading these links from an external json file, populated dynamically and displayed in Flash via a loop, the easy solution to determine the window target was to search for the internal domain name substring within the url string using String.search().
AS3 Grid Overlay Utility Class
Mar 13 2009
The Grid overlay class is just that. It's a utility class that draws a grid overlay (or underlay, or even middle-lay--however you want) within your swf during run-time, of specified numbered columns and gutter width. I created this class as a way to assist in maintaining the grid of the layout during the development stage.
Perlin Particles within a Circular Boundary in AS3
Mar 6 2009
The above example is another take on moving particles with perlinNoise. This time I'm containing the particles within a circular boundary by using the logic from my previous post, Mirrored Circular Motion in AS3, to regenerate particles on the opposite side of the circle. This experiment, as well as the rest of my perlin particle experiments, inspired by the magic Robert Hodgin created with his Weird Fishes video.
0 Posted under: BitmapData
Mirrored Circular Motion in AS3
Feb 19 2009
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.
Maintain Pixel Aspect Ratio using NetStream in AS3
Feb 17 2009
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.
Click to load more posts...