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Author: Ben Foster

  • Cool Microsoft Surface Videos

    Cool Microsoft Surface Videos

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    About a year ago I saw these videos pop up on YouTube showing some really cool physics and cloth simulations on Microsoft Surface. I though I would post them here for everyone to see and easily find them again.

  • Some more Flash Generative Art

    Some more Flash Generative Art

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    Here are some more generative art pieces I have created in Flash. I am slowly getting better at it. Now that I have figured out how to get high res bitmaps exported from flash I can get much better quality images. These were created at about 2500 x 3000px. Download the Hi-Res images here (ZIP,…

  • Vimeo Toy featured on Vimeo Forums

    Vimeo Toy featured on Vimeo Forums

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    A couple weeks ago I created a toy for Vimeo. Vimeo toys a basically an interesting way to visualise a live activity feed. I’m excited to say that they loved my toy and they have featured it in their forums. You can view the toy by clicking the image above, or visit the forum post…

  • Generative Art in Flash

    Generative Art in Flash

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    Recently I have been inspired to create generative art using Flash thanks to Erik Natzke who creates stunning images… all created by ActionScript. I did a fair bit of digging around the net and managed to find a few code examples and video demonstrations on how the images were generated. So as you can see…

  • Multitouch Jukebox Concept

    Multitouch Jukebox Concept

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    As most people may know, Adobe released CS5 last week and with it Flash CS5 which now has built in native multitouch events. As an experiment with these new APIs I decided to rework my AS3 coverflow into a multitouch music player using gestures to scroll through album covers. Below you can watch a quick…

  • Gradient Slider V1

    Gradient Slider V1

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    Today I decided to redo my gradient slider as a reusable class. But first I had to learn better OOP so after watching a quick tutorial over at GotoAndLearn I started moving all the code into separate class files. The main thing I wanted to do was to have the slider dispatch a custom event,…

  • Particular 2 tests.

    Particular 2 tests.

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    Below are a couple test video I made using Particular 2. I was experimenting with the settings to see what kind of smoke effects I could achieve.

  • Photo Painter App

    Photo Painter App

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    Here is my latest experiment in Flash… this time its an app that takes a source image (jpg) and paints it giving it a very painterly look. You can tweak some of the settings such as brush size and blur. The image above was created using this. You can download the Air installer or source…

  • ParticlePlayground Air App

    ParticlePlayground Air App

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    Over the last week or two I have been playing around with particle systems and creating my own to learn all the maths equations behind them. Why? I was playing with Trapcode Particular and started wondering what all the maths behind it was. So I started creating my own particle system in Flash from the…

  • AS3 Gradient Slider

    AS3 Gradient Slider

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    Recently I starting working on a little project in Flash ( I will post on this later when I am ready to show it) which required some kind gradient slider like what you would see in the Flash IDE and Illustrator etc, where you can move colours around and add or remove them form the…