By Arthy on Wednesday, November 26 2008, 14:09 - Labo
During my experiments i spent some time on perlin effect to create a plasma effect.
The most useful in perlin noise are octave offsets that can create the perlin movements, so the PerlinBD class extends the BitmapData class and provide simple way to manage octave offsets movements.
So here is a simple way to create a moving perlin noise to create a plasma effect :
// create new PerlinBD as normal BitmapData (width; height, alpha, color)
perlinBmp = new PerlinBD(550, 400, true);
// set 3 octaves effects (means 3 points offsets)
perlinBmp.setOctaves(3);
and then using Event.ENTER_FRAME, just call :
perlinBmp.updatePoints();
The perlinBmp instance has different properties to modify the plasma effect :
By Arthy on Wednesday, November 12 2008, 08:09 - General
If you have already seen the Adobe components limits, SamyStudio created an great set of AS3 components called "myLib" which include the following components :
Button
CheckBox
ComboBox
Label
List
MouseScroll
PanoramaScroll
RadioButton
ScrollBar
ScrollPane
Slider
TextArea
TextInput
MediaPlayer.
Once installed, these compenents appear in the components panel.
Personnaly my favourite is the wonderful combobox which is a pain to code.
The set comes with a whole API documentation, i guess this was a hard work to do so thanks a lot SamyStudio, great job !
By Arthy on Sunday, October 19 2008, 11:30 - General
Maybe you know Shazam wich allows mobiles & iPhones owner to recognize a music from a 10 seconds recorded sample ?
So have a look to : http://www.shazam.com/
How does it works :
You are hearing a song you like but you don't know who is the artist...
Record a sample to your mobile/iPhone, and thanks to its huge database this tool is capable of finding the entire music informations.
But Shazam made me think of another old web flash application i saw a long time ago .
This funny small app asks you to tap the music rythm you are thinking of, and it discovers it very fast.