Iteration 2 of the latest experiment: using a bitmap as a world map. Click the image to play.
Use the arrow keys to move around. Hit the reset button to swap out the “world” bitmap.
Tag: Flash
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A New Flash Experiment
A tile game engine, using a bitmap to determine content in the larger world view.
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Flash Math Experiment
A littler something I was playing around with this evening.
Click the Flash movie to reset the image with some new parameters.
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Interference Globe
I’m not sure precisely what I was going for with this one, but I really like how it turned out. In the longer view, I am playing around with making some generative art, things which I can print out and frame…and maybe offer up to the community at large.
But right now, I am going to turn this thing off and look outside at the first thunderstorm of the year. January 7. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Thunderstorm. It was almost 60 degrees Fahrenheit this afternoon.
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Rotating Height Map
The final version of this experiment, for now. Once it starts rotating, you can click the graphic to generate a new height map. It is kind of processor-intensive, but considering all that it is doing, it isn’t too bad.
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Filled Height Map
Another Height Map experiment – subtly different from the wireframe. The wireframe is visually more interesting, perhaps, but this one is more beautiful.
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Wireframe Height Map
Click the image to run the simulation.
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Rearranging a Few Things
Click the image to launch the experiment.
This is an earlier experiment which I have re-posted in order to test some new TextPattern functionality. Well, new to me, anyway. I want to have my Flash experiments plugged into my blogging software, and at the same time have them appear in a minimal interface which allows for movies of any arbitrary size. I also wanted to have comments enabled for the experiments. So over the next little while there will be several experiments – some old, some new – posted here, in order to, at long last, enter them officially into the site.
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A New Flash Experiment
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.
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Some New Stuff
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).