Demo: Playing with text.

alducente — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:28:34 +0000

I had a bit of a blast from the past earlier today while going through some old folders containing previous work and experiments. I came across a quick little demo I threw together in my early attempts of using TweenLite and the BitmapData class. Check it out below:

And I’m not quite sure why I did it, but I added a rollover effect on the dots as well…go ahead, put your mouse over those dots, you know you want to!

Looking back at this, and some recent BitmapData work, I’m getting a bit excited and starting to crave some more experimental work, I’ve already got a few ideas in mind! Superfluous rollover effects and all!

-Carlo

Interacting with the webcam

alducente — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:50:34 +0000

Last month, we decided to do some show-and-tell sessions at Zinc Roe where everyone had a chance to show some really cool stuff. My contribution was a little presentation on different ways to use the webcam to interact with flash applications. I had a blast reading up on some interesting webcam detection tutorials and articles, as well as putting some examples together myself.

Here are the topics I covered:

Camera.activityLevel – A brief explanation on using the Camera object’s activityLevel property
Bitmap.getPixel() – Using the BitmapData class to check for motion
Augmented Reality & Marker Tracking – What it is and how it can be used in different applications.
Moving MovieClips with your hand (or other limbs) using the webcam – An example of how you can use the motion detection stuff to move a MovieClip around the screen using only your hands and a webcam.

So check out my post over at the Metal Fish Eggs blog and let me know what you think!

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Demo: Playing with text.

Interacting with the webcam