Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in FITC Toronto 2009

Session 3: Cool Japanese Flash Side A

wonderfl.kayac.com

-Online service to write AS3 and compile .swf
-User community
-View other’s code. Fork and edit existing user code
-Track code that has compiled successfully
-Favorite users and code samples
-Tag broken code as “question” in the hope that the community will fork it and fix it.

Progression

-Framework for speeding up flash site developmet (Every framework)
-Supports Class, Component, and Timeline development
-Scene Navigator allows you to create page views and manage scenes. Views are added to the sceneObject, similar to how things are added to the display object.
-Scene states have a unique URI out of the box for deeplinking and also support query params

How to Manage Huge Data in a Beautiful Way – fladdict.net

-examples: gyre.omotesando.com, Design and the Elastic Mind (MOMA), Amaznode
-interesting: create a bitmap to contain data. If a particle is on a certain pixel, red channel of the bitmap might stand for speed, green channel for trajectory. Cuts calculation overhead. Over my head.