Actionscript 3 is easy as pie, it just looks a bit scary at first. As I mentioned earlier I had a look at Papervision3D (a 3D engine for Flash) and decided it would be a good oppurtunity to take up as3 (and test some of my filters in 3D at the same time).
After some fiddling around I noticed that the only primitives in Papervision3D were a plane, a paper plane (whieeee) and stars (?). No cube, no sphere… hey I can do spheres. So next in line are: cylinder, cone, torus and cube. And if I feel bold I might try some polyhedra.
So that’s my little contribution to the Papervision3D project: coded 3D primitives. It’s not much (especially not compared to what this person does) but as they say here: all little bits help.
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… and that’s four primitives (well, actually it is three: the cone is really a cylinder).
Below is a feature for unordered lists that I needed for our CMS. I tried searching for some good scripts but sometimes just making it yourself is way faster than searching, testing and adjusting someone elses script. Since this is quite a usefull script, and since I’ve done my share of shamelessly ‘ripping’ other peoples scripts, I thought it would be nice to share it. All you have to do is add the script in the html head and give your unordered list the classname ‘foldtree’. Further instructions are in the script itself. Here’s the download. And of course an example:
Well, the bullet is through the church (always fun to just translate a Dutch saying into English). The Filter Forge beta test ends. This product is really cool. And giving away free copies for good beta testing is even cooler. I thought well… fifteen.. maybe thirty lucky people tops. But these guys are insane. The’ve just given away threehundredeleven copies to the beta testers for submitting filters, bug reporting, suggestions and good behaviour. Now that is gratitude. I hope the’ve got some people left to sell it to 
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It was really fun to be one of the beta testers (and I’m not just saying that because I’m one of the lucky ones). I haven’t had much time to submit any filters recently but I’m sure I will in the future. Maybe now is a good time to put these seamless filters to good use in a totally different beta test. It’s about time I learned as3 anyway.
I just uploaded the 2007 newyears wish. I know it’s a bit late for newyears wishes but it was featured at Shapers and I never really got round to stashing it here so… better late than never. The reason I want to bring it to attention is a particle emitter. The smoke, the arrow and the sparkles are all done with te same particle emitter. It is an as2 class I build from scratch. I’ll finish it up and post it here if anybody is interested (so holler if you want it).
It started with a little update on the Cronfaker plugin but one thing led to another so now I’ve updated the Librarything plugin and the Stats plugin as well (and the sparkline one is almost done).