Hello MXNA readers, welcome to my lab
January 19th, 2007I received an email yesterday notifying me that my lab has been added to the MXNA. It’s been a little while since I posted anything here, but I’ll be getting back to experimenting just as soon as I finish up with the book. Also, when I do get back to it, I’ll probably be mixing in some Flex experiments every once in a while.
On a side note, if you’ve posted a comment requesting code for any of these projects and I haven’t responded to you, I apologize and I’ll try to go through and answer (or post code) soon.
So here’s my first public run at ActionScript 3 and I figured I’d go with the awesome computeSpectrum (I love this thing). I included 4 different songs so you could see some variation on the output. Just click on the name of the artist at the bottom of the movie and off ya go.
I started messing around with some more BitmapData stuff last night and came up with this transition which is a combination of perlinNoise, DisplacementMapFilter, blendMode and some simple alpha fading. Other than that, I don’t have much more to say, so go ahead and click on the “Picture 1″, “Picture 2″, and “Picture 3″ buttons to see the transition in action.
I started out this project wanting to work on some kind of fractal math and decided I would start with the Spleenwort Fern. After I got it where I wanted it, I started playing with the rotation. I couldn’t decide which amount of rotation I liked best, so I just set it up to choose one at random every few seconds or so. After that, I just added a bit of a bluish glow and thought it resembled a galaxy. I’d have to add that I learned a good deal about the Matrix Object. Especially the translate and tranformPoint methods.
Ok ok, so there’s already been people making fire with Flash 8’s perlinNoise, but I wanted to take a stab at it. A little mixture of BitmapData, DisplacementMapFilter, perlinNoise, and blendMode and voila! Houston, we have a fire.
How bout a little perlinNoise, Drawing API, and GlowFilter for ya? eh? I started playing with the BitmapData.perlinNoise method and came up with some moving clouds. From there, I added some rain and the lighting which my “northern lights” experiment was based on. After that, I figured I’d make the wind appear to gust by modifying the angle of the rain. Hope you enjoy it!
Well, here I am again with another experiment using BitmapData and BlurFilter. This time, there’s a good bit more math involed in animating the… well, I’ll just call it… umm… ringworm. heh heh. Click on the Skitzify button if you dare, but be careful with it because I couldn’t see straight for a little while after watching that.
So this started out as a lighting project and as I was messing with the glow of the lightning bolts, I decided to see what it would look like if I blurred and moved them. I liked what I saw, I tweaked it a bit and ended up with what you see here.
Well, I’m not really sure what to say about this. This is one of those experiments where I just kinda let it drive itself and this is where it ended up. Anyway, click the picture to make it happen.