I thought it would be good to release a more optimized version of my AS3 ProximityManager library that was designed for real use and included some new features. Here’s quick demo of it in action, showing 5000 items being updated… You can grab the code, docs, and demo here.

Source code, demo, and docs for an AS3 Kaleidoscope / symmetry class. It’s fast and robust, supporting one or more slices, reflection, display objects or bitmapdata as a source, rotation / position offsets, and a fast mode.

Friday morning I woke up with the random idea to try to simulate the playing records in Flash. Here’s a quick explanation of how I got it working…

I recently put together a class for managing “wandering” motion in AS3, and thought I would share it. It’s a pretty flexible class, with a lot of different options… I’ve also been playing around with it to make high resolution outputs.

I think most people can agree that the Flash platform suffers due to the lack of a healthy commercial component ecosystem. With that in mind I thought it would make sense to solicit feedback on how to improve the environment for commercial libraries and components. I’ll work to consolidate the feedback, and try to funnel it to appropriate people at Adobe.

I just filed a feature request for Flash player, asking for a cacheAsBitmapOptions property on display objects to make cacheAsBitmap functionality more useful by allowing you to specify whether to preserve the cached bitmap through transformations like rotation, scaling, and alpha changes.