Today I found a great tutorial for getting started with OpenFrameworks coming from an AS3 background, which is exactly where I’m at right now. I’m trying to expand to other languages for several reasons, specially for creative coding matters. Check it out, I really recommend it to anyone with similar interests: Getting Started with OpenFrameworks …

Demo. Source here. Drag the path handles to bend the sprite. The experiment makes use of a small library I just uploaded to google code called as3bend. It has the ability of bending a sprite along a given path. The library makes use of swfvector in order to extract the vector data of a Sprite. …

In case you’re trying to set up an IntelliJ project that uses the Molehill API, you followed all the instructions on Adobe Labs, and you are still getting the “Class flash.display3D::Context3D could not be found” runtime error, this might help. Apparently, IntelliJ doesn’t know how to handler the “-swf-version=13″ additional compiler argument. But fear not! …

A little flash photo portfolio website. Check out the awesome photos! www.blauff.com.ar As3-wise, I’d like to recommend some of the libraries I used for the project. It was a pleasure working with them for the first time. Picasaflashapi is a great library for connecting with google’s picasa web service for photo storage and maintenance. You …

CLICK HERE TO VIEW DEMO On my last post about this topic I was using a very inefficient triangle filling method; for each triangle joining the center of a Voronoi cell with one of its boundary segments, I was performing a per-pixel distance check and, depending on such distance, the amount of white for the …

Another obsolete experiment! Click on the image to view it (view source enabled). The concept is simple: alternate squares and triangles to produce a fractal tree-like structure. On each step, either triangles or squares are drawn in the edges of the last set of drawn elements. If the last set was triangles, squares are drawn …

So, it’s Saturday night, my flat mates are all heading out to cool party ‘A’ and cool party ‘B’. Unfortunately, I have to stay indoors in quarantine since I was blessed with a flu last Thursday. Damn it! I hate it when I fall Ill just before the weekend. It’s so unfair! Anyway, I needed …

Click on the image to see the demo, right click view source enabled. ‘Morley noise’ or ‘cell noise’ can be produced by laying out a random set of points and then coloring each pixel according to the distance to the CLOSEST of the layed out points. This can involve a pretty serious amount of calculation …

I’ve created a little poll in order to see how you guys think development on the textfields branch should be prioritized. You should see it at the bottom of the right sidebar. I’d appreciate your votes and suggestions! Note: If you think of something that doesn’t show up in the poll, please comment it in …

Im setting this up tomorrow in the Tecnoescena 08 Art Festival in Buenos Aires. Im expeting to see really cool things there. Check the site out at: www.tecnoescena.com. I couldn’t go without this little WiiMote-flash demo I made with my friends Alejandra Banfi and Pablo Dompe (click on the image to view it -space for …