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AS3 – Video Player

jacobmake — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:03:33 +0000

For a recent project I needed a skinnable AS3 Video Player. Everything I found was either over-developed or just didn’t work.

So… I created a super-simple skinnable AS3 FLV player. It’s still got a few kinks, but might be a good starting point for anyone to add-on. Feel free to use as you see fit (pls don’t be a dick and try to go sell it somewhere).

Here is what it has:

Play / Pause functionality
Video Scrubbing
Buffer display
Jump To section

Here is what it does not have, but what could be extended w/ a little more effort:

fullscreen
time display
sound controls

Link to AS3 Video Player Page
Download Assets

Simple Nest

jacobmake — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:51:26 +0000

I’m learning to draw with code. A lot of what I’ve seen out there in the interwebs is based on mathematical theories named after dudes from the sixties and seventies. I’m inspired by all that, but I’m also interested in recreating systems in nature through generative art. Here is a simple nest I drew with AS3, it’s based on some basic circle math I picked up here.

The twigs are all positioned and sized w/ code. The eggs shape was made by hand, but positioned w/ code. In the future I plan to further randomize the shape, color and characteristic of each twig.

Circles 02

jacobmake — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:12:49 +0000

Here is a new version of the circles, it’s pretty much a matrix of the previous version. In the future I plan on exploring custom stroke patterns and a way to represent the breakdown of the soft outer shell of the walnut that leaves the hard dark brown center exposed.

Walnut Circle 01

jacobmake — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:21:45 +0000

Here is my first version of the random circle project. I might add a deep brown element, I’m also thinking about how to string these together in a pattern on a canvas.

twitter project

jacobmake — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:35:12 +0000

We’ll here it is.

This has been a silly and fun project. I got to revisit one of my favorite NES games and learned a little about ActionScript and APIs in the process. In hindsight this would’ve been just as easy to do w/ an RSS feed but it feels good to have this idea expunged and no longer rolling around in my head. On to the next project…

base code

jacobmake — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:26:17 +0000

To accomplish my silly idea, I need to be able to get to my “tweets”. This is public information so user authentication won’t be necessary, although there looks to be a pretty straightforward auth function in TWITTER.as.

I’m using the AS2 API because of it’s simple and compact nature. Here is the code I’m starting with;

This code returns my (hebchop’s) most recent “tweet”.

SWX and Twitter

jacobmake — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:48:27 +0000

While trying to decide whether to use the Twitter AS2 or AS3 API, I stumbled across SWX, This is an AMAZING standard for getting data into Flash from some of the more popular social media APIs. I expect it to be my new best friend. It’s based on some some existing methods for getting Data. Some open source projects have very minimal gearhead websites with download links, roadmaps, and release notes. The SWX website is VERY user friendly for mid-level developers(and well-designed). They host public server-side PHP, so the AS library works right out of the box.

For this project the AS2 API was the easiest to break in and get the data I wanted which lives in the method userTimeline, but I expect to use SWX on future experiments.

twitter face

jacobmake — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:04:42 +0000

I recently downloaded the twitter Actionscript API. I’m thinking about developing some kind of absolutely worthless flash widget that would display my “tweets” with some kind of tween and/or humorous staging. I first thought of some kind of puppetry.

Plugging into web services and APIs is some fun stuff. I’ve done some tinkering with google maps before, this would be my first jump into a social media API.