Sine Language

by Devon O.· January 30, 2008· in Actionscript· 0 comments
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. Example: The Working Class: [crayon-61b086bc42e29747221411/] And a little document class example: [crayon-61b086bc42e3d696993509/]
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Image Viewer Test

by Devon O.· January 20, 2008· in Flash, Life· 0 comments
Just a quick test to see if I can get this sliding thumbnail/image viewer thing to work in WordPress.. Here’s hoping…  Edit: Aha! it does work.. just tricky as hell to implement.. Carry on.. nothing to see here….
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Auto Resizing Popups with Actionscript

by Devon O.· January 20, 2008· in Actionscript, Flash· 0 comments
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 the path to picture is required, but you can also include a title to display in the popup window as well as specify the usual features of a popup (scrollbars, resizable, status, etc.). So far I’ve only tested in IE and Firefox on Windows XP, so if someone tries it on another browser/system, let me know if it works. Admittedly, I’m not that javascript savvy. The util class: [crayon-61b086bc4b9ad480215176/] and an example document class: [crayon-61b086bc4b9bc236438715/] which yields: EDIT: I just realized that class is all but completely illegible thanks to the AS parsing script I use. Below is a link to the actual .as file for anyone actually interested.. OBO_Popup
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“Double Sided Plane” with Papervision

by Devon O.· January 15, 2008· in Actionscript, Flash· 0 comments
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 rotate the DisplayObject3D item (which of course will rotate both front and back image as though they were a single item). Of course this would probably make a little more sense in code form, so here’s a quick example: [crayon-61b086bc4baef509985700/] And that will give you: Nice, huh?
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Singularity?

by Devon O.· January 13, 2008· in Life· 1 comments
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 suck. Many theories in physics have mathematical singularities of one kind or another. Equations for these physical theories predict that the rate of change of some quantity becomes infinite or increases without limit. This is generally a sign for a missing piece in the theory, as in the Ultraviolet Catastrophe and in renormalization. In supersymmetry, a singularity in the moduli space happens usually when there are additional massless degrees of freedom in that certain point. Similarly, it is thought that singularities in spacetime often mean that there are additional degrees of freedom that exist only within the vicinity of the singularity. The same, fields related to the whole spacetime also exist; for example, the electromagnetic field. In known examples of string theory, the latter degrees of freedom are related to closed strings, while the degrees of freedom are “stuck” to the singularity and related either […]
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Devon O. Wolfgang

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Unity Engineer at Touch Press.

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