6th November, 2007
I was given a task to create a gallery in flash that cycled through portfolio images like so many you see.
Here is an example of my initial efforts. Its set for 40 pictures at 1 second per picture and doesn’t loop but flicks everything back to the start in quite an impressive (if accidental) manner.
31st October, 2007
The next plan was to enable the flash in my new design’s header to change the dimensions of the div it was sat in so that for most the time it takes up less room, but when it needs it the space expands to allow for larger content there. I had already anticipated doing something like this so had included the mootools JS library at the very start of building my new design.
http://www.broken-links.com/2007/05/01/a-mootools-quickstart-guide/
16th September, 2007
So I have been working for my placement with the guys behind http://www.neovirtua.com/ and realised I haven’t done much in the way of updating my website in a while.
I started a couple of days back a personal project to build a flash puzzle game, which can be found at http://www.srjm.co.uk/puzzle.swf. At this point it only swaps around a single piece to make it easy for me to complete (this still involves no less than 7 moves to get the pieces in place) as I test functions but soon that will change.
27th April, 2007
Having worked right up to the deadline on the final courseworks for idat203 and 205 I’m pretty glad thats all over. And some good feedback from the few results I’ve had back.
Exercise 4 – Tic Tac Toe AI – Play this simple noughts and crosses game against either an intelligent computer player, or one who choses moves at random.
Exercise 2/3 – A-Life and Genetic Algorithms – Demonstrates the evolution of insect-like organisms through the process of selection and mutation. Start by clicking ‘Initialise’ and then trying to catch 4 parent organisms before clicking ‘Replicate’ and watching the outcome of your selection.
Exercise 1 – Flash Arrays for Vectors and Matrices – A demonstration of the use of vectors and matrices, an important component of AI.
4th March, 2007
All my AI work can be found at http://www.srjm.co.uk/portfolio/aint204/
Play against a computer player in a game of tictactoe with AI enabled or disabled.
Developing a selection and mutation system.
12th December, 2006
As the simulacrum work reaches its finalisation point, and all I would be able to do is sit and wait, my attention turns to the XML work and HCI essay (both of which have been very slowly warming up for the past couple of weeks). Between driving and setting the final 20 second simulacrum scene up for rendering, this morning has been dedicated to creating an XML search script in actionscript (Flash yet again…).
View the XML project as it comes along.
To get results, try the search terms ‘silver’ and ‘blue’ for now, but anything else if its there can be searched for.
And finally, the last 20 second section of my simulacrum video is complete. Saving it as Quicktime initially created a 1.3GB file, however this was before I set it to compress with mpeg4, giving me a nice 118MB 100% quality file. Still nothing near the size I would reasonably put online though. : (
9th October, 2006
While running a test of our organism flash project, and in particular studying my brand new Bee and Beehive behaviour, something which shouldn’t have been possible occurred. With a theoretical maximum of 3 bees, a fourth bee appeared. Believing this to be an interesting fluke, I was proven wrong again when a fifth and sixth bee appeared over time.
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