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Just launched the new wasabi digital demo pages. It’s a 3D wall (pulling content from xml) with a z-stack category page. Check it out at http://demo.wasabidigital.com.au
Serg just put me onto a great site from stanford engineering. It’s a free online course in machine learning. It’s http://www.ml-class.org. I’ll post a couple of experiments in the next couple of weeks that use some of the techniques that I learn in the course.
Haven’t posted much for a while but I was working on some banners that had a kaleidoscope effect and thought it was worth posting. I know there’s probably a few out there but most of them seemed very messy to me. I’ve ported the code from as2 to as3 and posted it below (it would feel dirty to post as2 code lol). Nice and simple to use:
new Kaleidoscope(image,width,height,rotationspeed,numberOfSlices);
Click on the image to see it in action.
After porting phatt to the blackberry playbook recently, I thought I’d try porting it to android phones. It turned out to be a beautifully smooth process. Android & Adobe have put together a very simple workflow that allows you to get it on the phone, into the marketplace and monetise it all in the same day. Very happy. If you’ve got an android phone, look for phatt squatt in the marketplace.
Just finished up a desktop application (built in Adobe Air) for Sony Music’s bandit.fm. It seamlessly integrates with the website so that when a user purchases a track or video it downloads through the app and then allows them to manage and playback their music and videos.
This post is a different way of putting together a sound sequence. Drag one of the ‘thumpers’ onto the stage and then drag the different coloured tones around it to hear the sounds it makes. You can add as many thumpers and tones as you like. This is the first post in a 2 part experiment. The second part will expand this into a game where you will need to protect your thumpers (COMING SOON).
I saw an example recently using webcam facial detection to create a virtual 3D view for the user. The example didn’t post the code, but I didn’t think it would be too hard to put together so I’ve done a quick mockup of this functionality and posted the code below. The next step for me is to plug this into papervision and create something more immersive.
This is a super generic as3 colour picker. You can use any graphics you like and the code will sample off the bitmap palette that you use. You can litterally get a completely custom colour picker up and running by just dropping your graphics in place and adding a few lines of code.
I’ll be doing a talk at this years Social Media Summit on the fundamentals of getting your brand on facebook (including custom tabs and facebook applications). I’ll be doing the talk at each of the 3 locations (sydney, melbourne and canberra). Should be a lot of fun.
Sydney: 25th-26th May
Melbourne: 30th-31st May
Canberra: 2nd-3rd June
A simple on-screen keyboard for use with your flash projects that may be running on a kiosk or device. Simple implementation. **Shout-out to serg on this one for his help.
