And now for something completely different… The other day, for reasons I can’t even explain to myself, I googled for metaball examples. No real need, I just rather like the way they look, all blobby and stuff. Well, one of the first things to come up was this nifty example in Java by Gordon Williams. I promptly decompiled the java and ported it all over to Actionscript 3. Afterwards I emailed the author and asked if it would be all right to publish the AS source, and he kindly said it would be fine (I know, I know, it’s a bit of an ass backward way to operate, but if he hadn’t been kind enough to say it was all right, you wouldn’t be reading this now). So this is the result I got (double click the thing to get it going or stop it): As you can, it’s currently (at least on my machine) running at around a craptacular 11 frames per second. If anyone would like to try their hand at optimizing the sucker please have at the code below (and please post your results here – I’d like to see what people come up with). A couple […]
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