All of “Flash”


Adobe's Mobile Plans:

I've been following Aral Balkan's discussion on Adobe's strategy and I mostly agree with him (parts 2, & 3 are also good)

Coffee Bean to Carbon Atom:

Very "Powers of Ten"-ish Flash gadget that helps show the scale of small things. via.

Faster AS3 Functions:

Jackson Dunstan shows how to squeeze more speed out of your functions.

WonderWall:

I love the effect and content on this portfolio via

Neave:

Playground site for Interaction Designer Paul Neave.


Airship

We recently added a bomb-dropping airship to our homepage (click on the bomb in the hull to drop it). Here's a demo of it with just a bunch of debri.



Flash/Flex Workflow:

Development workflow explained

Flash and the Search Engine:

Strategies used by Odopod


Sea Serpent

(This post uses the Adobe Flash Player.)

We've been making some toys, experiments and illustrations to eventually use on a redesign of adaptedstudio.com. This little sea serpent is kind of fun, you can grab click it and throw the sea serpent around. It's one of my first experiments with the Box2D physics library.


Reactive Music Video:

It follows your mouse and it's pretty


Particle Type

I dusted off an old Flash project after Matt and I sketched some dynamic logotypes over lunch. Not exactly a finished idea but possibly a start. Any feedback on this one would be welcome.

(This post uses the Adobe Flash Player.)



This Week In Papervision: EyeToy Lite

• Professional Papervision shows how to use a Wii remote with Papervision

• pv3d.org does reflections

• Daily PV3D shows how to make a Eye Toy game with Papervision, a print out, and a web cam.


Must Have Flash Utilities:

Nice list of Hydrokit's top 11 tools for Flash

Flash 10 AS3 Dictionary:

This took an unreasonable amount of time to find.

Pachyderm:

Easy to use authoring for museums and schools. Server tools and Flash client


This Week In Papervision: Fireballs & Anaglyphs

Fireballs

Moving a 3D light around based on your mouse position

• Barcinski and JeanJean on how to make a working anaglyph with Papervision

• My old employers Honest just launched an impressive Papervision site for Remy Martin

Introducing Matrix3D in Papervision

• Andy Zupko breaks down using Quadtrees in Papervision, a feature recently introduced to improve triangle z-sorting (for a price)


Spirograph

Spirograph Images

Fans of the original Spirograph or just lovers of hypotrochoid's in general might get a kick out of this hypotrochoid/spirograph toy Matthew made a while ago. Coincidently some of the techniques used in that toy found new life in later client work, but that is a story for later.


ActionScript XML Basics:

Clearer explanation than Adobe provides