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A New Flash Experiment

John Winkelman

Click the image to launch the experiment.

This is a thing which I suppose I have been working on for almost a year and a half: An isometric view, rotating height map created only using the built-in capabilities of Flash 9. Well, I have been kicking the idea around for a year and a half. I began to build something out in Flash 8 late last summer, but as soon as the new plug-in was released, it stopped working. This new version I built from scratch in about a week.

Click on the above screenshot to see it in action. Warning: It is quite processor intensive. It won’t crash your computer, but you will probably hear all of the fans kick on. And the file is less than 2k in size.

Some New Stuff

John Winkelman

I have been doing a lot of Flash work lately, so in an effort to shamelessly promote my talents I now have an experiments section. You can see the button at the top of the page, nestled in between “About” and “Links”

Also: As of November 1, 2007, BBK Studio (my former and current place of employment) is now People Design. We ushered in the new era with a grand party at the new Grand Rapids Art Museum, which is big and beautiful (as is their website, which we built).

Pickerel Lake

John Winkelman

Pickerel Lake, October 29, 2006

These photos are from a walk Cynthia and I took around Pickerel Lake back in late October last year. If you look closely, in one of the photos you can see the walls of a labyrinth.

Ludington State Park

John Winkelman

These are shots from a trip Cynthia and I took to Ludington State Park over Labor Day weekend.

I have decided to go for broke and start uploading all of my digital photos to Flickr – or at least, the better of my photos. I have many CDs, and a small but growing stack of DVDs, which I use for archiving. Given the space which Flickr provides (unlimited), there is no reason not to put everything online.