Category Archives: AS3

Parsons Exploratory Navigation

By NickHardeman | February 23, 2010

Recently Parsons has launched a much needed improved site. I worked on a Flash application of the site which serves as an exploratory navigation for potential students to discover programs they may be interested in based on floating keywords. The design was done by Dexter Miranda and supervised by Isa Gouverneur, both part of the [...]

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TweetCatcha

By NickHardeman | February 5, 2010

Tweetcatcha uses the New York Times Timeswire API to load the latest news for the last 24 hours. We use the title and the url of the articles on nytimes.com to search through Twitter. There is a lot of data, so please be patient with the load time. Searching through Twitter for url was made [...]

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BackTweets API AS3 Class

By NickHardeman | November 21, 2009

For a current project collaborator Bruce Drummond and I needed to search Twitter for urls. We attempted to parse the bit.ly truncated urls by expanding them, but that proved inefficient. Since each user truncates urls differently, we could not simply truncate the url and then search for that bit.ly. We also contacted bit.ly to determine [...]

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Animating with Vector3D Class

By NickHardeman | September 15, 2009

Move your mouse over the word to see the effect.
I have been getting back into OpenFrameworks lately and I have been using the OF vector library for all of the recent animations that I have been doing. I thought that I should give the AS3 Vector3D library a go. There are some limited, but useful [...]

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Loading an XML File From Another Domain Without a Cross-Domain Policy File

By NickHardeman | March 30, 2009

I recently completed a project in which I needed to load xml files from anywhere on the web. Through some quick google searches, I found that most recommendations were for a cross-domain policy file. However, I do not have access to change these files. With the help of some php, we can grab xml from [...]

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Math Mapping Functions

By NickHardeman | January 31, 2009

I have not posted in a while, do to finals, vacations and excuses. But for my final I got into algorithmic animation and I used these functions a great deal to help me out. The values must be in the range to work correctly.
// returns a number between 0.0 and 1.0 //
public static function normalize(value:Number, [...]

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AMFPHP 1.9 and Actionscript 3

By NickHardeman | November 19, 2008

I recently installed amfphp 1.9 and have gotten it to work thanks to some tutorials by Lee Brimelow on some introductions to amfphp.

Introduction to AMFPHP 1
Introduction to AMFPHP 2

He also did a blog post about some security issues regarding amfphp. These were great to get me started, but I ran into a few problems when [...]

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AS3 Multi-Image and Swf Loader

By NickHardeman | September 18, 2008

If you want a very robust multiLoader in as3 then BulkLoader by Arthur Debert is a great solution. This as3 multi-loader manages the loading of multiple images and swfs and is a lighter class, and is based on the BulkLoader code.
Tracking of individual progress and of the group is easy. To view the loading again, [...]

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