Author Archives: Carly (Admin)
A really simple vector to bitmap example
When using the flash drawing api to create drawings on the stage, after many lines/shapes you will experience a significant slowing of the system. This is because flash has to draw each line every frame. Flash 8, provided a solution … Continue reading
Displacement maps
My bright and shiny toy for today is displacement maps. I’ve been meaning to actually understand exactly how they work so that I can be in control of what I create with them instead of just applying others’ examples. I … Continue reading
Using the Kuler API
Last weekend I did some playing with the Kuler API. It was just a quick experiment to see what the API was about, I have future plans for this but for the moment have been distracted with other things so … Continue reading
Hydra filters
I’ve been mucking about with others’ Hydra examples since I saw the movies of it at max. Basically its a language based on C designed to perform image processing tasks. Eventually Hydra will be implemented into after effects, photoshop and … Continue reading
Preloading in an AS3 only project
Keith peiters has a wonderful tutorial on how to preload in an AS3 only project. I had been wondering myself but had just been cheating and having my as3 app sitting in a flex app.
Another successful update
WordPress does make blogging life very easy. I’m now running 2.3. My theme is a little old. While I still like the design, I think the code will need some updating to support the new features.
