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junkImade: WordFillParticles

dx0ne — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:02:05 +0000

Just playing with some bitmap filling.
Upper quote from Why You Should Celebrate Your Mistakes
Lower paraphrasing Warren Ellis’ Spider Jerusalem.
Icons by famfamfam

download 1680×1050 from Flickr
and here’s version with shadows – cpu heavy

junkImade: AS3 particles waterfall

dx0ne — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:31:07 +0000

First “big” thing made in AS3, during first week of learning it, back in the June last year.
Used setPixel, BitmapData.lock/unlock, blur, distortion and some caching of precomputed bitmaps(for water). Still it could use some optimizations and for sure some cleaning. It’s small and stupid simple but it was first thing that made me really proud(I tend to be over-critical for myself) and one that made me “wow!” for AS3 performance(i did some stress testing with 20000 particles). Funny that I’m posting it now.

here’s basic version: AS3 particles waterfall (it’s CPU heavy!)

^{screenshot @ Flickr}

and this is with Flickr(yep, i like working with it). the curtains like effect is accidental

^{screenshot @ Flickr}

junkImade: Brickos v0.2

dx0ne — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:43:36 +0000

Playing with ActionScript3 and physic library Box2dAS3.

It’s ongoing project. Code is quick’n'dirty so I’m gonna rewrite it and add few features like bolts/nails, more shapes, saving scenes, etc. Also thinking about some better interface and separation between creation/simulation. So stay tuned.

Controls:
Everything you need is under S [hold it].

play with Brickos

^{screenshot @ Flickr}

junkImade: Plohyer

dx0ne — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:37:31 +0000

Thing was to create parametrized GUI for mp3 player. Params are like: color, roundness, line thickness or visibility and size of controls.

Mini version could look like this:

junkImade: flickrBoing

dx0ne — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:56:05 +0000

This is some old project. First or second made with Flickr API, ported from AS2 to AS3 because it wasn’t so smooth there. It’s useless but I learned a lot from it and I’m somehow happy with result(which is rare).

You can drag balls with mouse.
Double click show 5 photos of chosen contact.

play with flickrBoing (you can use my login for quick run)

^{screenshot @ Flickr}

As I said making this was equal to learning. Where’s learning there are bugs. And bugs in programming means: a) catastrophe b) funnn!

At very beginning of project things weren’t working as I thought the would, which resulted in the “orbits” mutation. Double click promote ball to higher orbit which, with small invention on our side, gives possibility to create some structures.

^{screenshot @ Flickr}

You know how it goes: 99 bugs in my code. I fixed one bug! … 101 bugs in my code… Well fixing mutation can produce, well other mutation. Bug in gravitation code on the other hand can produce… consciousness? In flickrBoing_predators double clicked balls acts like they have some AI behind them. They try to catch and keep normal-flock balls. Produce few of them – they will fight for food ;]

To get crossdomain (FP9+ I guess) you need to manually load files for each farm:

Security.loadPolicyFile(“http://farm1.static.flickr.com/crossdomain.xml”);
Security.loadPolicyFile(“http://farm2.static.flickr.com/crossdomain.xml”);
Security.loadPolicyFile(“http://farm3.static.flickr.com/crossdomain.xml”);
Security.loadPolicyFile(“http://farm4.static.flickr.com/crossdomain.xml”);

junkImade: tableGallery

dx0ne — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:13:22 +0000

Alternative way to view Flickr photostream or interestingness feed. The main idea was this drag’n'throw mechanism, then I thought it could be gallery.

In menu you can bring more photos, go full screen or distribute thumbnails on circle/grid. Enjoy.

tableGallery

^{screenshot @ Flickr}

junkImade: clipWall

dx0ne — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:21:01 +0000

Wanted to do this for long time. I wasn’t expecting it would run that smooth in full browser window (i have 21″ screen). AS3.0 is really nice thing.

clipWall (wait few seconds for filling up the buffer)

^{screenshot @ Flickr}

junkImade: disintegrationPuzzle

dx0ne — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:07:33 +0000

Here comes the junk.

Thanks to Ben Heys for photo. Check out his stuff(goood one) at http://benheys.com/

Go play with disintegrationPuzzle.

^{screenshot @ Flickr}

junkImade: wordFishEye

dx0ne — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:59:02 +0000

junkImade is some useless stuff I make. Small demos, experiments, subproducts of ActionScript learning. Showcase of my skills. Random crap like XML based gallery, SQL based gallery, gallery with thumbnails, SQL based gallery with XML descriptions and cool mouse over effect, etc.

wordFishEye is sth like tagCloud but in 3d and without tags ;] It grabs top 50 fav artists from given Last.fm profile.

If you don’t have Last.fm account just click textfield and press enter – it’ll use my login.

Red bar is mode(list, spindle, warp, ball, wormhole).
Blue controls focal.
Green is radius.
Orange? is words scale.
Circles are presets so you don’t have to play with bars on your own – how kind of me ;]
Hold mouse to speed up rotation.
Press letter to filter artists by… first letter(enter clears).
Double click to search artist on YouTube (pretty much useless).

wordFishEye <-- click here for live demo

If anybody is interested i’ll clean up and post code for scroolbars.