Drawing a checker board pattern quickly with AS3
Today I needed to dynamically generate a checker board pattern in ActionScript 3. I couldn’t find any examples on how to do it so I made my own. Below is a snippet of code I wrote to draw it and its super fast! I used bitwise operators in the loops to speed it up and […]
June 1, 2011
NiceComps – AS3 UI components for Flash
NiceComps is a set of ActionScript 3 UI components that I have been slowly working on over about the last six months. I got tired of the ugly built in components that come with Flash and I don’t particularly like the look of MinimalComps. I wanted UI components that looked nice and were easy to […]
May 20, 2011
Windows Phone 7 custom half tiles
Here are some half and quarter tiles that I’ve made for the WP7 home screen. Simply go to the link below on your WP7 device, tap on an image you want and pin the site to your start screen. This was inspired by the custom organisation tiles at http://blog.iqagency.com/?p=3751. At the moment they are only […]
May 18, 2011
Dye Lockscreen Wallpapers for Windows Phone 7
Over the weekend I was playing around with macro shots of dye on paper. The only thing I could find in the house that I could use as ‘Inks’ were a box of red, green, blue and yellow food dyes so thats what I used. Although they didn’t bleed like I was hoping to I […]
May 16, 2011
DSI Multitouch construction – Part 6
Here is a small update on the current state of my coffee table. Its been a nearly a year now since I first started and I’m still slowly working on it. Recently I decided to add some touch sensitive hardware buttons at the edge of the screen. I researched some different ways of doing this […]
April 19, 2011
Five Interesting Videos On Experience & Interaction Design
Below are some interesting videos regarding experience and interaction design. You can find the remaining 3 parts to the second video at Interaction-Design.org
April 13, 2011
AS3 Uint Colour Util – Update: Now with source
Since Flash works with colour in the hex format, I’m always finding it annoying how you have to convert to RGB to perform manipulations on colours. Most colour classes out there like Grant Skinners Color Matrix and the ColorMatrix by Quasimondo work with matrices and the ColourTransform class, which is OK sometimes. But I find […]
March 29, 2011
Tyler Umbers March 2011 Edit
This is a little delayed but about two weeks ago I went back up to Horsham and filmed an edit for Tyler. I finished it last week and it has been up on Vimeo for about a week now. Check it out below. The intro title was drawn in Illustrator and then brought into After […]
March 25, 2011
Super Duper Macro
Recently I have been experimenting with macro photography quite a bit with some old Pentax lenses and extension tubes adapted to my Canon. I hadn’t tried with any shots with all extension tubes added together and when this weeks Gizmodo Shooting challenge was Macro I decided it would be a good excuse to get out […]
March 11, 2011
Canon 7D + Anamorphic 35mm projector lens
A couple weeks ago after I got back from Japan I bought an anamorphic lens off eBay for my 7D. It finally arrived yesterday and now I have to try and find a way to attach it. Since nearly all anamorphic lenses that are adapted to DSLRs are from projectors they require special clamps and […]
February 22, 2011
Gadgets in Japan
As some may know I have just returned from a 4 week trip around Japan. Whilst in Japan I spent a bit of time in different cities browsing through giant electronics stores such as BIC Camera, Yodobashi and Yamada-Denki. One of the great things about the Japanese electronics stores is not only do they stock […]
February 10, 2011
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