Flash Experiments

Flickr API #1

Maurice — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:29:12 +0000

A colleague showed how he used the FlickR API to one of his projects. So I got interested in building something of my own.

In the end I wanted to make a mozaïk based on 1 photo a user supplies. This mozaïk is then build up from pictures taken from FlickR. Like that effect on the movieposter for the Truman Show.

This is how far I got. I shall definatly pick up this project again in the future.

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/03_mozaik/Main.html

Date: march-2009

Papervision #2

Maurice — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:28:50 +0000

A certain project was coming up at work which might had to make use of Papervision. We all never got into Papervision before, so I started doing some initial research. This is the last project that came out of that.

UR: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/papervision_shooter/index.html

Date: January-2009

Augmented Reality #1

Maurice — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:08:19 +0000

My graduation thesis is all about Augmented Reality, so naturally I'm exploring the posibilities of flash and AR. And surprisingly, it's quite easy if you got a basic understanding of papervision and AS3.

To make something cool and innovative, however, requires a bit more creativity.

Here's my first attempt, it does require a webcam though. And ideally you need to print this marker. But I guess you could also point your cam at the monitor.

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/05_AR/index.html

Date: 2009

Bitmap Fun #1 & #2

Maurice — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:03:02 +0000

My first experiment with this aren't really worth mentioning, so I combine it with a later revision.

I once saw an animation which created this really cool Pollock-like painting using the draw-class and the bitmap-class. (was something like this: http://stamen.com/projects/splatter). This started a project to create something similar.

For my first projects I wanted it to be something that could run the whole day, like a screensaver or something.

I came up with this one first.

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/04_pollock/Main.html

And later I combined it with the sound spectrum thingy from a few years back:

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/06_equalizer/spectrum3.html

Date: January-March-2009

Papervision #1

Maurice — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:56:10 +0000

My first complete experiment with papervision.

I tried to come up with something that could in the end be used as a portfolio or something. But when I started doing papervision projects with more content I found out it becomes performance heavy really fast.

In this experiment, there are 8 buttons in the top-right corner. The top 4 tweens the camera (I used caurina tweener f or that!), the lower 4 tweens an object around.

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/07_papervision/3d-plane-game.html

Date: January-2009

Dynamic Menuitems

Maurice — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:49:47 +0000

This small project was based on a visual effect I once saw. The concept with this is that different pages could animate in as if a piece of paper was folded or lifted up.

After I got the first effect my attention went to creating a dynamic menu and a floating cursor effect.

Never realy got myself to continue this project...

Note: it may seem as an empty white page, but just click anywhere to initialize the page.

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/01_mainmenuanimatie/Main.html

Date: January-2009

Maths and Graphs

Maurice — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:36:09 +0000

I often had a problem where I wanted something to look normal when the mousecursor was in the center of the stage, but had to look different when pointing to the left and/or right.

I remembered a formula at mathclass in which you could get a parabola graph, which was which I needed basically.

I also wanted to test out how to implement glow and blur filters which needed to change dynamically. My first attempts naturally caused Flash to crash. When you create a new filter every frame Flash kinda does that. When I finally came up with a solution I was amazed how smooth it suddenly ran. Ever since I've been interested with performance tuning.

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/10_math/index.html

Date: 2007

Spectrum Analyzer #3

Maurice — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:24:07 +0000

I revisited the SoundMixer.computeSpectrum() class and tried giving it another twist. I also tried to find a way to make flash react only when a certain peak occured. I abandoned the project for something else before I could add some graphical element to it.

Song: Simpsons OST - Spiderpig

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/06_equalizer/spectrum2.html

Date: 2008

Side-shooter

Maurice — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:00:33 +0000

Never made a real game before, and I wanted to test out some conventions and coding techniques. I came up with a wow-themed game (I played a LOT of wow at that time)...

Graphics: World of Warcraft

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/09_shootergame/shooter.html

Date: forgot, probably 2007

Spectrum Analyzer #2

Maurice — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:39:33 +0000

My first actual attempt with playing with the SoundMixer.computeSpectrum() class of AS3.

I did some playing around with how to use the numbers that came out of it. I intended it to be something small like a widget so it could be put in a profilesite or a blogpost or something...

Song: Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (plus like... 10% pitch)

URL: http://www.mauricemelchers.nl/experiments/06_equalizer/spectrum.html

Date: 2007