It’s been out a few weeks already, but I thought I would make a blog post about it. Pass the Gun is my latest game. The entire game is played on Twitter. Users shoot and/or pass a virtual “gun” to friends on twitter. Users can earn virtual money by pulling the trigger on the gun [...]
Flash Artistic Experiment: is feeling good #1
Throughout the semester I developed this Flash art/simulation/game. It was originally supposed to be a game… maybe it is I don’t know it all depends on your definition. The title is called Is Feeling Good. I reserved the name IsFeelingGood.com a few months ago and thought for a while of what could possibly be on the [...]
Soundpen
For my experimental digital art class at Georgia Tech, I created this toy I call SoundPen. It’s a very basic version obviously (although I think some cool things could come from this idea). The basic idea is to create music by clicking your mouse and placing balls that will bounce of the screen. There are [...]
Basic Random Walk in Flash
Here’s a random walk program. I always wondered what the screen would look like if i had a dot move in a random direction. Click to refresh. View and fork this on WonderFl or Download the flash file here.
Picture of Pictures
The Internet has provided a new means of data expression. I decided to play with the idea of machine aesthetics by developing an application that creates images of images.
I first saw this effect a long time ago on a poster advertisement for the Truman show. I always wondered how they made the effect of compiling images together to form, when looked at a certain distance, an image. The program I made this week creates the effect by downloading Flickr images.
Scoring The Oregon Trail
Introduction A unit of measurement is defined as “any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.”[1] Units of measurement are critically important in associating meaning with quantities. One gallon of milk, one-hundred yards on a football field, or a thousand pages in a book are examples of a numerical multiplicity of [...]
Ethics and Online Privacy
Online, privacy barely exists. Every page, email, and instant message can be intercepted, manipulated, and/or logged. The millions of Internet users browsing the web at this very moment may be surprised to find that their online information is not secure. The Internet’s greatest strength in accessibility is its greatest weakness in security. Web servers have [...]
Web Standards
As many Flash Developers have heard, ECMAScript 4 has died. I’m not going to go into the details of the decision, although you can most likely blame Microsoft and their 80% browser stronghold on the web. Nevertheless, the decision has raised significant issues around the web regarding web standards, and whether or not they have [...]
AS3 EventManager Class: removeAllListeners
I heard about a class that Grant Skinner wrote called Janitor that was supposed to help keep track of listeners, but I couldn’t find it. Consequently, I wrote my own “EventManager” class for a gaming project I’m working on which keeps track of Event listeners in a project. As all Actionscript 3 developers know, one [...]
Jacobi Algorithm in AS3
Recently, my “Calculus for Computer Science” teacher assigned the following problem. So to complete this assignment, I decided to use Actionscript 3 and Flash. A friend of mine and I at Georgia Tech are developing a complex open source matrix library called as3matrix, and we were planning on implementing Jacobi to find eigenvectors of a [...]