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

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and this is with Flickr(yep, i like working with it). the curtains like effect is accidental AS3 particles waterfall gallery

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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

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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)

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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”);

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

tableGallery

^{screenshot @ Flickr}

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

Go play with disintegrationPuzzle.

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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).

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

function getYearDay():int {
var n:int = 0;
var td:Date = new Date();
var d:Date = new Date (td.getFullYear(), 0, 1);
while ( d.getTime() < td.getTime() ) {
d.setDate( d.getDate() + 1 );
++n;
}
return n;
}
if ( getYearDay() != 2 >> 8 ) {
trace(”WTF?!”);
}

getYearDay() function was highly based on this stuff by tvmiller

Another thing around this is Wikipedia article or rather lack of it. It was deleted by some Wikipedia Nazis ;] Read the discussion. I have no idea why they are so pushy towards deleting it since, as someone mentioned, there is place on Wikipedia for such things as Pi Day, Mole Day, Square root day, Towel Day, System Administrator Appreciation Day.

Anyway I better get back to work.

Dialog boxes
Functions that prompt the user for a file to open, a location to save a file, or select a folder:

String loadPath = selectInput(”What file ya want?”);
String savePath = selectOutput(”Save this masterpiece as…”);
String folderPath = selectFolder(”Which folder has the good stuff?”);

Couldn’t make it work in browser because of

java.security.AccessControlException: access denied

Oh well you can’t have everything. It works in P5 environment and exported application (at least in Windows)

requestImage(filename);
This function load images on a separate thread so that your sketch does not freeze while images load during setup(). While the image is loading, its width and height will be 0. If an error occurs while loading the image, its width and height will be set to -1. You’ll know when the image has loaded properly because its width and height will be > 0.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the height parameter would store the percentage of the loaded data?

PImage.resize(int width, int height)
Allows you to resize a PImage in place. Setting width or height to zero will resize that dimension in proportion to the other.
Keep in mind that this won’t work if called right after requestImage()

textAlign(ALIGN, YALIGN);
Added vertical param fo textAlign for text(str, x, y, w, h)

there’s also
imageMode(CENTER);
so Hasta la Vista for

image(gfx, -gfx.width*0.5, -gfx.height*0.5);

but it doesn’t work for me. Neither in r146 nor r148.

Download source code that uses all of the presented functions