Archives for September, 2007

on AIR Bus Tour Photos


My crappy cellphone pictures from the on AIR Bus Tour event. The food was amazing. Check out the chocolate fountain!
Also see public photos on Flickr from the event.

AIR Monster Attack


Well that was easy!
I made a quick AIR version of my monster attack “application”. The copy of AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide that they gave us at the on AIR Tour Bus event was very helpful (along with the demos that they actually presented at the event).
All I had to do was create the [...]

Verlet


I’m pretty happy with how the Verlet integration engine I’ve been building is turning out. I’m using it for the next virtual pet animal I’m working on. It’s somewhat cleaner and much more extensible than the system I hacked together for my monkey. When combined with my wide-curve-drawing routines, you can create some interesting-looking stuff [...]

Not liveblogging the Adobe AIR Tour


I’m here at the Toronto stop of the Adobe AIR Tour. So far it’s been pretty keen with cool demos, including stuff like applying Flash filters (e.g. blur, bevel, etc) to HTML elements. Nice.
I still haven’t done anything in Flex or AS3 yet, but being able to use HTML/CSS/JavaScript with full access to AS3 libraries [...]

Short note: Bézier curves


In my current project, I am drawing Bézier curves in code rather than using MovieClip.curveTo(), thanks to the bug I wrote about back in May. Since I’m doing it in code myself, I thought I might as well use cubic Béziers (four control points) rather than Flash’s quadratic curves (only three control points). Plus, for [...]