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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

OSX circular menu v5 »

I showed this last experiment at my FITC lecture. It is an extension to the OSX circular menu v4 post. I applied the same logic or the icon spacing where I created a variable I call Hz that defines the horizontal space needed between icons when the...

Monday, April 23, 2007

FITC presentation and source files v2 »

To all those who attended my lecture at FITC in Toronto, Canada here are the presentation files. Dont forget to download the free slidebar and knob components from my site.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

FITC and presentation source code »

I finished my talk at FITC and the turnout was great.  Heard lots of positive comments, I'm just glad I was able to pack in all that theory inside an houre. Next, Hit town to party with a few friends and the FITC speakers & attendees. ...

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

3D carrousel v3 : rotating menu »

Based on the 3D carrousel v1 post I added the code of the circular rotating menu  and created the following navigation.  Click on any icon to rotate the caroussel and get the icon to move towards you.  Use the sliders on the left to...

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Circlular rotating menu v2 »

Updated the animation physics for the circlular rotating menu v0 post. If you look closely I implemented the quadratic easing equations I had writtes a few posts back.  Actually the equaituion changed a bit,  // animation equation var...

Monday, April 16, 2007

Circlular rotating menu v1 »

A small comment on the circlular rotating menu v0 post. I think the pie image confused some, and wanted to make it much simpler to understand, implement and expand.  I positioned 20 clips around a circle of radius 80 using the following post....

Circlular rotating menu v0 »

This might come as a surprise post to some due to its simplicity.  Much like the wheel of the price is right. Need to rotate a clip around a circle and make it stop precisely at a certain angle.  To do this we create a parent clip called...

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Speaking at FlashBelt 2007 »

I was happy to hear that nothern US and Midwest flash designer developers are thrilled to have me as part of the speaker lineup for this years flashbelt conference taking place in Minneapolis. Flashbelt - brings together flash developers, designers,...

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Circular OSX menu »

Got it! I created a circular OSX style navigation menu similar to the Tagnautica menu by Mario Klingemann.  The code is actually even simpler than the last OSX menu post. Instead of laying out my icons on a horizontal line, I arrange them around...

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

OSX menu v4 »

In the last OSX menu script, I realised I was lacking a variable to control the horizontal spacing between items.  That is why I created the hZ variable to desxcribes in pixels how much space between each icon.  Use the slider to control...

Friday, April 06, 2007

OSX menu v3 »

About a year ago, I had posted a few experiments about creating and OSX type navigation menu. A few weeks ago, I decided to rework that code in order to ultimately create a navigation similar to the Tagnautica menu by Mario Klingemann.  What is...

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Project 52 is dead »

I decided to kill a sub project to the reflektions|miniml site.  Project 52 was a compilation of all the 300+ 3D, mathematics, animation & physices experiments on this site.  I replaced it with the browse all experiments link on this...

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

3D carrousel v2 »

This is the official update & fix of the heavely commented version of the 3D rotation menu. Based on the 3D carrousel v1 post I create the following rotation variables : var time = 0; // current time var cAngle = 0 // current...

Monday, April 02, 2007

3D carrousel v1 »

In case you never had a chance to see the ultra simple 3D Camera in action, refer to the  3D XYZ post.  The camera script is simple. Based on an object I create whith initial x,y,z and target dx,dy,dz properties and calculate position using...