Multimedia

18 February.09 A simple re-work of a Flex file that I saw online to simulate a magnifing glass effect. Not terribly exciting. Check It.

29 October.07 A little something from work.

With the following SWF you can manipulate an image within Flash (currently render to black and white and sepia) and then export out to JPEG.

The SWF utilizes two classes from Flex 3, the JPEGEncoder class and the Base64Encoder classes.

The image, once manipulated, has its bitmapData run through the JPEGEncoder class, then through the Base64Encoder to render a string which is sent via POST to a waiting PHP script.

The PHP script then reverse-encodes the data and renders an image.

This could be applied to produce image files via PHP or to store the data in a database.

The process is quick within Flash but does stall a bit rendering to PHP. It's still miles faster than previous iterations I've seen in the past.

Props to Grant Skinner, btw, for point out the JPEGEncoder class to me at MAX this year.

Check It.

NOTE: It's quite possible the Grayscale version of the image doesn't work on my webserver. I haven't enountered the problem prior, but it's possible.

10 October.07 An experiment in blitting, using just bitmap data for animation. The sample imports a PNG, scans for non-transparent pixels, and then makes them twitch on enterFrame. The number of pixels being modified and the frame rate are displayed. (Inspired by a session at MAX.)

23 February.07: The Barcode Clock

Inspired by a JS version found on digg.

3 January.06: Bought a web cam today and played around with it in Flash. If you haven't got a camera, don't bother, but if you do, check out the Disco Web Cam. Move yer mouse around inside the white box for a simple colorMatrix transition on the camera image.

21 April.05: Another kaleidoscope, This time with the option of swapping the image, as well as changing the size and number of wedges.

10 July.04: A flagrantly ripped-off audio expiriment.

20 June.04: 11-Up just may be finished. Judge for yourself.

26.May.04: Dynamic, fluxing gradients in Flash .

4.September.03: A bandwidth test I wrote using Flash MX.

03.September.03: Circles? Using the Flash drawing API, circles are generated based on the movement of the mouse.

February.02: A shockwave mathematical proof for line-segment intersection.

January.02: Alge-Pass™ demo for McGraw-Hill

November.99: A Science Exploration for McGraw-Hill.

November.99: Yet another Exploration for McGraw-Hill.

October.99: Another throwback from childhood: a sliding puzzle.

24.September.03: A proof-of-concept for a friend to test the referring page. If you didn't originate from inside the Ochremedia domain, you get redirected to the home page. If you did, the page loads as normal.

12.September.03: An example of Deployment Documentation

16.July.03: A white paper I recently co-aruthored for Roundbox Media

29.July.03 White paper #2 for Roundbox Media describing options for a proposed project.