Archive for May, 2005

Interactive wallpapers?…

Thursday, May 19th, 2005 by Luis

Caution: This page contains some works of “anomalous motion illusion”, which might make sensitive observers dizzy or sick. Should you feel dizzy, you had better don’t click the link below…

Check out Akiyoshi’s illusion pages

JSFL: Using JSFL to generate alternate XHTML

Thursday, May 19th, 2005 by Luis

Interesting trick by Patrick Mineault to get better search engine rankings when your site is pure flash.

Security in Flash Player 7

Thursday, May 19th, 2005 by Thomas

Something I found in my bookmarks that’s always helpful: An article about the security model of Flash regarding the loading of content from different domain names etc:

Security Changes in Macromedia Flash Player 7

Path problems when loading flv’s into NetStream object

Thursday, May 19th, 2005 by Thomas

When loading flv’s into a NetStream object Flash seems to use a different base-path than normally.

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Class file cache

Thursday, May 19th, 2005 by Thomas

We sometimes experience problems when updating classes through the CVS, which have an older timestamp than the one that was overwritten. I’ve been looking for this for quite a while and finally found out that and how Flash caches Classes as aso files:

More information from Macromedia (how to delete the cache)

A desktop tool to clear the class cache

Flash: Class conflict

Thursday, May 19th, 2005 by Luis

I heard about this before, but it never happens to me until yesterday…

Ericlin has an article decribing the problem, Name of class conflicts with loaded class.

Installation: Mine-Control

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 by Luis

They use their experience in game development to explore the art of interactivity in contexts other than traditional video games.

Mine-Control

Installation: Messa Divoce

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 by Luis

A performance and installation in which the speech, shouts and songs produced by two vocalists are augmented in real-time by custom interactive visualization software.

Messa Divoce Installation

Flash: JavaScript Events in Flash

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 by Luis

Martijn de Visser has created an ExternalFunction class, which allows you to generate EventDispatcher events in Flash through Javascript.

I’ve been using similar solution in the past where I had a menu in Flash and some html content changing in a different frame.

In order to track the changes in the frame with the html content I used to generate a small swf that pass Javascript variables to the main Flash menu by LocalConnection.

Martinjn’s ExternalFunction class supports a LocalConnection to receive variables and then broadcast an event.

JavaScript Events in Flash

Sorenson Squeeze FLV meta-data bug

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005 by Thomas

Sorenson Squeeze puts the wrong height into the meta-data of FLV files. To be more precise it puts the width also as the height in it…

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Flash: Digital creatures

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005 by Luis

Beatifull notes about the creation of digital creatures in flash.

Old Stuff part 2

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005 by Luis

Again cleaning up my old Mac files I found some interesting experiments.

In this case I was reorganizing the process files for one of the exhibitions I did last year in Spain and I found this piece of shockwave where I was trying to play a video texture over a video background inside a fluid 3d object.

experiment 1 (forget about the graphics… it is just a dummie movie, and move the mouse to play with the curtain)

Some pictures of the exhibition.