http://dirty-motherfucker.org/blog All kinds of shit Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:42:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While working on a reference implementation in Actionscript for a demo effect, I accidentally ended up with this beauty. It's based on the lovely City Traveler algorithm by Jared Tarbell with only a few minor adjustments actually. I thought I'd share nevertheless :) Be sure to stop it at some ... http://dirty-motherfucker.org/blog/2008/08/18/supernova/ I updated my Abstract Foliage script for Scriptographer and also created a new one - the gearwheels. We recently found ourselves in lack of an easy way to create the outline of a gearwheel. With stroke modifications it just seemed too hard. So i quickly wrote something up in Scriptographer. Hopefully ... http://dirty-motherfucker.org/blog/2008/08/18/gearwheels-abstract-foliage-04/ I wrote 3 small file templates for the AS3Project in FlashDevelop. They come in quite handy when working on a PureMVC based project. PureMVC-Command.as.fdt PureMVC-Mediator.as.fdt PureMVC-Proxy.as.fdt I hope it helps someone ;) http://dirty-motherfucker.org/blog/2008/06/20/puremvc-file-templates-for-flashdevelop/ For ease of use i have a small batch file to generate the documentation for my ActionScript projects. It's definitely nothing special, but if you struggle with the asdoc syntax and you just want a quick solution, here it is: @echo off set asdoc_bin="E:\projects\flex_sdk_3\bin\asdoc.exe" set aswing_path="E:\projects\aswing\trunk\AsWing\bin" %asdoc_bin% -doc-sources org\dirty_motherfucker\. -main-title "My ActionScript Project" -output ... http://dirty-motherfucker.org/blog/2008/06/17/quickly-generating-asdoc/ I updated all the processing works to use a more common code base. Additionally i added start/stop functionality to the small versions displayed directly in the blog. I also fixed a few minor (and some major) issues in the Sand Traveler project. In the original code you will find the following line: float ... http://dirty-motherfucker.org/blog/2008/05/26/updated-processing-works/ 2008-05-26: I fixed some parts of this port. For further details check the updated works post. For this one i have to credit quite a few people. As always, i started out with the Processing source by Jared Tarbell. He based his code on an implementation by Paul Bourke, who based his ... http://dirty-motherfucker.org/blog/2008/05/22/buddahbrot-in-as3/ 2008-05-26: I fixed some parts of this port. For further details check the updated works post. I saved one of my favorites by Jared Tarbell's for now. The algorithm amazed me almost as much as Substrate did, but when i decided to port Tarbell's works i knew i could put a ... http://dirty-motherfucker.org/blog/2008/05/22/jared-tarbells-sand-traveller-in-as3/ 2008-05-26: I fixed some parts of this port. For further details check the updated works post. I finished another one of Jared Tarbell's works. Based on the experience with Substrate, this port was straight-forward. I also just gave the new Flash Player 10 Beta a run for it's money. I can only ... http://dirty-motherfucker.org/blog/2008/05/15/jared-tarbells-happy-place-in-as3/ 2008-05-26: I fixed some parts of this port. For further details check the updated works post. Through a long web discovery session, i have come along the website of Jared Tarbell lately. If you aren't familiar with his works you should definitely have a look. Needless to say i was very impressed ... http://dirty-motherfucker.org/blog/2008/05/13/substrate-in-as3/ dragonworx, a user from the FlashDevelop message board took the time to write an SWC compilation plug-in for FlashDevelop. So, if you're a FlashDevelop user and you're looking to compile an SWC library you should definitely have a look at this. http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?t=2987 I personally have not yet put it to use as i ... http://dirty-motherfucker.org/blog/2008/05/08/compiling-swc-libraries-part-2/