actionscript microcosmos

This year has been an exciting time so far, personally and from a Flash developers point of view. And looking forward to the upcoming year 2011, I dare to say the good news are - there´s no end in sight!

Personally I managed to travel a lot, gave talks on several conferences (like Flash on the beach, FFK or FITC),  and met a lot of great people out there. Simply fantastic! But from a more Flash developers point of view this year was and still is absolutely thrilling. Lucky me I have the fortune to be in the Adobe Molehill Prerelease program, which made my past months and will make my upcoming months pretty exciting . It´s like being in the land of milk and honey where GPU acceleration and Flash is no foreign word any longer! But how does that new toy look like? There a quite a few demos out there since this weeks AdobeMax, all together brilliant Molehill proof of concepts (like ‘Zombie Tycoon‘ f.e.). But as far as I´m concered and of course it´s all a matter of taste (…and I like demoscene kinda stuff first) let me just show you the one that made my week so far:

• Disconnected, away3D & evoflash (plz watch it in 720dpi)

Considering all that amazing works that are recently been released I can hardly wait to show you some stuff I´ve been working on for the past four months. Thankfully it won´t be long till ‘Adobe User Group Xl - event‘ (less then 3 weeks of counting sheeps) where I´ve the chance to give a talk and intending to release my little ‘Mole contribution’ (a.k.a another demo) there…

Besides the mole, playing around with the given FlashPlayer still is worthwhile and challenging in equal measure. Last week i got some interesting request which made me revisiting my Voronoi experiments once more. Well, i won´t let the cat out of the bag right now because possibly something real amazing might happen to and with my Voronoi approaches, meanwhile let me just show you an updated version of my Voronoi implementation which is able to generate and handle real big-ass regions (like 800×579 pixel f.e.).

Launch

Lucky me and thanks again Rebekka granted me to use some of her brilliant photos (you really should visit her website for more) to showcase my recent Voronoi works.

Truly amazing times!

Posted in: Flash, Actionscript3 by frank reitberger /