More Excitement

Alright, It has indeed been a while since anything went on here, which is a sign of good and bad. Lots has been happening and the most recent of which is the new Thermal and a Quarter site.

My first site completely in as3 and man has it been a good ride.

The site is at http://www.thermalandaquarter.com/ - the art is by Khushboo Salian.

Go there, listen to the music, buy the album, da de da de da... you'll love it!

Also, and here's the zinger: I had to do a visual update on their myspace page as well.

Let me say first out: myspace SUCKS! (in some ways: mutiple millions of people can't be wrong).

But, once you settle in and get it balanced, it really is quite rewarding. Not that I'm condoning the crap. Myspace is broken. But well, it was a good afternoon of frustration and here's the result: http://www.myspace.com/thermalandaquarter/

And I need to thank Mike D for his kick ass article

And now back to Simpsons.

SoundMixer.computeSpectrum

I just can't seem to get enough of all the new stuff they've pumped into AS3.

Efficiency is finally respectable so even with my unfortunately wasteful programming, everything seems to be running smoothly. 

This simple little number is using the computeSpectrum method new to AS3. (check out Peter deHaan's piece where I learnt about it.)

Beautiful part is, once you've computed, you're free to do anything with that data.

And here's my first doodle with it. I hope this runs as well as it does on my machine:

http://www.therandomlines.com/shapes.html

I haven't built anything advanced in AS3 yet, but the prospects are promising and I look forward to it. Time I started giving back out to the community though... sometime...

3D baby! I'm finally exploring...

This feels so good.

So the holidays have passed, generally speaking. There is much merriment afoot, but the brunt of it is done and twas the time to start learning again. So I bit my lip and dived into AS3. I've been putting this off for a while now, because I'm scared. But the rush is incredible. I've done practically nothing and already the joys far outweigh the inconvenience of changing some of the way you think. There's a great lot of people out there who are really helpful and its made this a lot easier than I'd imagine, but the most fun of things to try will have to be Papervision 3D

Here's my first attempt to do something with it.

http://www.therandomlines.com/3d_02.html

It is absolutely fascinating. I'm not even going to pretend I know what goes on inside. The ease of working with it is amazing, and the hype isn't misplaced: this does change the future of the web.

Flash for the win!