Back from Flash on the Beach

photo by BIT-101
I got back from Brighton yesterday, exhausted after 3 days of excellent sessions and some heavy drinking sessions too!

The high points for me were Mario Klingemann’s “2D or not 2D, that is the question” talk about working with BitmapData. He showed how to make a “Magic Wand” tool a la photoshop. His process was impressive to say the least, and I’m very interested in playing with the paletteMap method of the BitmapData class.

The session from André Michelle was amazing, he demoed his PopForge sound synthesis engine. Generating sound entirely within flash at run-time. See the video below, this is all generated and manipulated in flash. It’s simply amazing, I can’t wait to get some time (after this post) to start messing around with sound in flash.


There were lots of other talks that were brilliant, Jared Tarbell, Eric Natzke, Craig Swann, they were all very inspiring to watch and listen to. I also went to a few more technical talks, Grant Skinner’s actionscript 3.0 talk was good, as was Ted Patrick’s Flex worst practices talk. Though I don’t use flex (well, rarely) it was still a good talk that highlighted some very important points about the development process for me.

I’ve just found some videos I filmed of André Michelle talking about popforge, see below

November 8th, 2007 by gabriel in Open Source, ActionScript 3.0, Flash

19 Comments so far

  1. springrules » Blog Archive » Back from Flash on the Beach / November 9th, 2007 6:35 am

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  2. Simon / November 10th, 2007 11:11 am

    Ah! Looks like it was so much fun :D I live next to Brighton but I couldn’t get any tickets :| wish I could have gone :D

  3. Julian / November 12th, 2007 9:38 pm

    Next year for sure…

  4. gabriel / November 12th, 2007 10:13 pm

    yeah man, you gotta make it next year!

  5. KG Lew / April 4th, 2008 7:21 pm

    wow… way too far to travel for me, but I love flash… hope you had a good time…. the sound generated in flash is amazing…

  6. Luxor / May 31st, 2008 3:24 am

    nice experience for sure!

  7. aşk şiirleri / June 13th, 2008 10:59 am

    aşk şiirleri
    aşk şiirleri
    aşk şiirleri

    Thnaks You!

  8. islam islami sohbet / October 12th, 2008 8:51 pm

    I saw the session it was wonderful.

    islam islami sohbet

  9. Aşk şiirleri / November 14th, 2008 2:46 pm

    elinize sağlık çok güzel olmus

  10. Mario / December 2nd, 2008 2:44 am

    Anyone that saw the session on how to make Magic Wand tool, please post the basic ideas behind it so that we can try to implement it.

    Thnkas.

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    This is very nice post. thank you.

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    Very good show, i love it man.

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