Archive for the ‘ActionScript 3’ Category

Snippet: Convert milliseconds to a time code string (00:00:00)

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010



Capturing BitmapData of a Single Blurred Display Object is Annoying

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

I feel like I'm going crazy here. I have a circle inside a MovieClip. The (x,y) position of the circle inside the MovieClip is (0,0).  I'm applying a BlurFilter to the MovieClip the circle is in. I'd like to create some BitmapData based on the filtered MovieClip. Here's my code. var ...

Using BitmapData to Improve Performance (And One Small Annoyance)

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Lately I've been experimenting with generative art in Flash/ActionScript 3. Its been pretty fun and I've created some interesting results. In my experience, and I can only assume in most other artists and developers cases, I really got familiar with the Flash Player's performance limitiations. More specifically, I came to ...

Get yourself to NYC for Flash and the City

Friday, January 29th, 2010

I had the pleasure of hanging out with Elad Elrom last night. He's one of the organizers of the upcoming Flash and the City conference here in NYC. I highly recommend attending this conference for the following reasons: 1. Its in F*ckin' New York City! I know NYC isn't for everyone but ...

Open Source Media Framework (Sprint 8) Bug in NetStreamPlayTrait and NetStreamTimeTrait?

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Over the last two months or so I've been keeping my eyes on Adobe's Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) project. I started fiddling around with Sprint 7, seeing if I could build a progressive video player component on top of it. My first impression was that the project was still ...

New Flash Community Developments: Robotlegs and Signals

Monday, December 14th, 2009

I've come to realize that I'm always a bit hesitant to change. I was late to get a cell phone, late to join Facebook, late to join Twitter, and often late to look into developments within the Flash community. Lately I've been trying to change how often I tune into ...