Monthly Archives: June 2008

Source | Programatically Drawing Trees With Recursion

Posted on 27 June, 2008 by

Great example by “Grant Skinner”, showing how to create tree by using recursive algorithms. The source is also available for download. Read full article and download source

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Tutorials | Developing, Extending and Styling Flex Components

Posted on 27 June, 2008 by

Do you want to create your own flex component? Or you simply don’t like the style of the component you need to use, or even there are some features you would like to have in your actual component? The following … Continue reading →

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Tutorials | AS3, Maths and Physics

Posted on 27 June, 2008 by

I have just stumbled in this great site, whose the author is Drew Cummins. This guy it seems to be a genius of the physics and maths. I picked up two tutorials he wrote on about using the FOAM and … Continue reading →

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Tutorials | The “Making of” – Awesome!!!

Posted on 26 June, 2008 by

The bellow articles will show you the behind scenes of some of the best artwork in the web. In this “making of” stepped article, you will learn some fantasy art work using matte painting techniques.

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Tutorials | Flash Navigation with Actionscript and XML

Posted on 26 June, 2008 by

In a Flash Website, if you just need two or three “alone” buttons for your site navigation you  can simple design them and place it in the stage. Or, to be more elegant, you can make an array in as3 … Continue reading →

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Tutorial | Dragging in 3D with Papervision 3D

Posted on 25 June, 2008 by

Andy Zupko wrote an awesome tutorial showing you how to create a dragable 3D object using papervision 3d and as3. A nice and ellegant approach to the CameraObject3D method. FYG the as file is only 9k!!! Read tutorial and download … Continue reading →

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Tutorials | 4 Great Text Effects Tutorials

Posted on 25 June, 2008 by

There are numerous ways to show your text. Here are some great tutorials explaining some techniques you can use to give nice look to you text works.

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Tutorials | Great How-to Articles on Create Audio Spectrums with AS3

Posted on 24 June, 2008 by

The SoundMixer class that comes with computeSpectrum method are some of the new features of Actionscript 3.0, enabling the developers to produce real-time sound spectrum. Some people made real good effects the kind of windows media player. Let’s take a … Continue reading →

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Tutorial | Create a Flickr search engine with Flash and AS3

Posted on 22 June, 2008 by

Another great tutorial at The Tech Labs, this time by Fausto Carrera, explaining how to creat your own Flickr Search Engine, using Flash and actionscript 3. Read Tutorial and download support files

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Component | Open Source TreeMap Component

Posted on 22 June, 2008 by

A treemap displays hierarchal data in a truly fascinating way. Using a limited rectangular space, a series of nodes display relationships between items through visible properties such as size and color. Furthermore, by structuring your data into categories, you can … Continue reading →

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