Owen's code rambles

Rotoscoping in Linux

admin — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:25:36 +0000

I finally found a decent rotoscoping program for linux It’s called pencil, and you can find it here http://www.pencil-animation.org/ So how do I rotoscope a movie in pencil? well.. you can adjust the opacity of the whole interface, so, you just set the opacity to 60% and put a movie behind the pencil window.. I tried a few [...]

Simpel fractal

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:37:37 +0000

Started trying something with fractals.. I geuss this is the very basics of a fractal in actionscript.. so… here the code: package com.owensLib { import flash.events.TimerEvent; import flash.geom.Point; import flash.utils.Timer; import flash.display.Sprite; public class Fractal extends Sprite { private var sqr:Array = new Array(); private var clr:uint = 255; private var c:int = 0; private var t:Timer = new Timer(500, 0); private var going:int = 1; public function Fractal() { t.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, function():void { c+=going; clr = [...]

Setting up a red5 server

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:37:55 +0000

Red5 is a flash communication server. it enables you to make a socket connection to your server and communicate with a java application there (which in itself already opens tons of possibilities). but also; red5 is very useful for streaming and recording client streams. so.. altogether; a very interesting platform to play with:) I’ll be starting with a [...]

About Opensocial and Hyves

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:59:42 +0000

At my work we got an order to develop a hyves gadget, I was responsible for the technique behind it. I decided to use opensocial instead of the hyves api because that should result in a cross platform gadget (opensocial is available on other platforms like facebook, myspace, orkut, etc. etc.) So this is what we created: [...]

getters and setters in php

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:35:15 +0000

while I was setting up a framework for a project, I started to think.. is it possible to use getters and setters in php.. ( if you don’t know what I’m talking about.. read this article about how (and how not) to use getters and setters in actionscript) so I started looking on the internet, and I [...]

Actionscript ComputeSpectrum experiment

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:14:56 +0000

Recently I started experimenting with the actionscript SoundSpectrum so I created several things, tried combining it with papervision 3d.. but in the end.. the best I came up with.. is as simple as can be.. but yet.. … very.. … intriguing anyway… enough rambling… an example: (*click*) and the source code here download sourcecode package com.owensLib { import caurina.transitions.Tweener; import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Event; import flash.media.Sound; import flash.media.SoundChannel; import flash.media.SoundMixer; import flash.net.URLRequest; import flash.utils.ByteArray; import flash.utils.setTimeout; import mx.core.UIComponent; public class [...]

Actionscript events workflow

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:53:58 +0000

in actionscript 3 events can be a real blessing, or a pain in the but, it can make your code a lot cleaner or pollute your code with a lot of, addEventListener’s.. So today I want to show you how I often get around the many addEventListeners, I’m assuming you know how to add eventListeners and how to dispatch them. (in the common way by extending the Event class)

Actionscript 3 particle engine

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:32:15 +0000

a little experiment with particles I did recently. here you go.. play around a bit..:) I will be adding more options like motion blurring, in the near future — at first I had some performance issues (naturally) I drew every particle every frame, also every particle was a sprite… now.. there’s just one “drawsprite” where I [...]