George Carlin: 1937 – 2008

by Devon O.· June 26, 2008· in Liberty, Life· 2 comments
Boy everyone in this country is running around yammering about their fucking rights. “I have a right, you have no right, we have a right.” Folks I hate to spoil your fun, but… there’s no such thing as rights. They’re imaginary. We made ’em up. Like the boogie man. Like Three Little Pigs, Pinocio, Mother Goose, shit like that. Rights are an idea. They’re just imaginary. They’re a cute idea. Cute. But that’s all. Cute…and fictional. But if you think you do have rights, let me ask you this, “where do they come from?” People say, “They come from God. They’re God given rights.” Awww fuck, here we go again…here we go again. The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument, “It came from God.” Anything we can’t describe must have come from God. Personally folks, I believe that if your rights came from God, he would’ve given you the right for some food every day, and he would’ve given you the right to a roof over your head. GOD would’ve been looking out for ya. You know that. He wouldn’t have been worried making sure you have a gun so you can […]
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3D Shell Game

by Devon O.· June 25, 2008· in Flash· 3 comments
Just a little diversion to while away some time whilst stranded just off the coast of Nowheresville, Maine. It’s sort of a 3d shell game/3 card monte (but completely fair). 3D courtesy of Papervision3d. Have fun…
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AIR Cookbook Beta hits the Cyberstreets

by Devon O.· June 18, 2008· in Actionscript, AIR, Flash· 0 comments
Check out the new AIR Cookbook online at the Adobe site here. My entry on implementing a “Recent Items” menu can be seen here, but don’t worry, there’s some good stuff there as well. Back underway (navy speak for going back to sea) tomorrow for a couple weeks. Not particularly looking forward to it, but I just remind myself that My Light at the end of the long long tunnel is waiting for me back in Ireland and nothing seems that bad anymore…
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Loading, Filtering, and Saving Images with Flash Player 10

by Devon O.· June 16, 2008· in Actionscript· 3 comments
Still playing with the new features of Flash Player 10. This example uses a halftone Pixel Bender filter created by Justin Everett-Church which you can check out here. It also uses the new additions to the FileReference api to upload and download files. To use, just click on “load image” and browse for an image file to upload. Make sure the file is under 50k or the application will just fail silently. Once the image is uploaded the halftone filter will be automatically applied. Use the sliders to make adjustments and the color picker to choose a different background color. Once satisfied with your creation, click on save image to save the altered file back on your own computer. Amazing, even if I do say so myself. Incidentally, if your image is larger than the viewing area, you can drag it around to view the entire thing. With Flash CS4/Flash Player 10 Image and Sound editing applications are going to be so freaking easy to build (not sure about video yet – that may take a bit of finagling). Again, to view the example, you’ll need Flash Player 10 installed: And the code to create the above (I wouldn’t leave ya hangin’): […]
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Got User Interface?

by Devon O.· June 15, 2008· in Flash· 2 comments
When Flash CS3 first appeared, aside from those few provided, good looking UI components were few and far between. It seems that recently, though, you can’t swing a dead cat across cyberspace without hitting some new Flash component or other. In addition to the scripted ui package I have for offer here, there is now: Liquid Components, created by Didier (“ByteArray”) Brun and built upon the already existing CS3 component architecture. These are easily skinnable in a very Flex like manner. MinimalComps – A minimal UI component set created by Keith (“Bit-101”) Peters and delivered in a Flex packaged .swc file (making them a bit tricky, but not impossible, to use with Flash). And the oft overlooked Astra Flash Components brought to us by Yahoo!. This is a very great set of components including some Flexy charting components for data vis. If anyone knows of any component sets I missed, post a comment. What Flash really needs now, though, is some data components. Or am I the only one who misses those that were (are) available for Actionscript 2?
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Devon O. Wolfgang

AIR | Unity3D | AR/VR

Unity Certified Developer

Technical Reviewer of “The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development” and “Starling Game Development Essentials”

Reviewer of “The Starling Handbook”

Unity Engineer at Touch Press.

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