Sine Language

Not sure exactly how useful this effect may be, but here’s a little something I was playing around with and thought I’d share.

Image Viewer Test

Just a quick test to see if I can get this sliding thumbnail/image viewer thing to work in Wordpress.. Here’s hoping…

Auto Resizing Popups with Actionscript

While, normally I dislike popups, they are definitely an occasional necessary evil. This little utility class can make them much easier to create. Simply pass it the path of an image file (i.e. a .jpg) and it will open up a popup window containing that image and automatically resize itself to fit the picture. Only [...]

“Double Sided Plane” with Papervision

Here’s a little trick I learned from playing with After Effects (“postcards in space”, man). If you’d like to have a double sided Plane object (playing card, flipping piece of paper, etc), simply create a DisplayObject3D instance, add your two sides as planes, push one side back a single pixel on the z axis, then [...]

Singularity?

Being the armchair quantum physicist I am, the name of Aral Balkan’s secret new project is rather intriguing. But who am I kidding – curiousity has taken hold and I am dying to know what it is. So much in fact, I’ve thrown all principle out the window and am now advertising on my blog. It better not [...]

Mini Memory

While playing around with papervision3d and helping the wife with a little school project, came up with this little mini version of the memory card game.

Preloading my Life

This has got to be the longest preloader ever – the amount of time I have left until I’m out of the Navy: