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MMT Digital’s 2010 Christmas Game

by on 16th December, 2010 in Flash

It’s that time of year again – time for the Christmas E-Newsletter and some festive fun. This year our Christmas Game is a little bit harder and has a few new levels to try and complete…

Play it now, online @ The MMT Digital Christmas Game.

Sorry about the background jingle.

xJSFL – That looks pretty cool.

by on 27th August, 2010 in Flash

xJSFL [http://www.xjsfl.com/] is a scripting library for extending the JSFL functionality of the Flash IDE. Its aim is to do for JSFL what the jQuery library did for Javascript which, by the way, was awesome.  Basically it extends the JSFL syntax to make it easier and faster to develop.

JSFL is a bit of a niché subject, so I can’t imagine it’s going to take off massively, but who knows.  I use JSFL from time to time, so anything that makes those boring tasks easier to automate has gotta be good – maybe this library will be the turning point for its popularity.  Or something like that.

Link: Advanced image filters for Flash Player

by on 9th March, 2010 in Flash

These filters aren’t really going to visually blow your mind – I think they’re a little more on the techie or specific-use side of things, but that being said, they are very clever & pretty unique so they deserve a mention!

Image processing library for Flash Player: http://blog.joa-ebert.com/imageprocessing-library/
It’s a load of cool filters for images in Flash, including some of the more fancy image enhancement tricks that I can’t say I’ve seen anywhere else, like contrast correction, HDR filters, that sort of thing.

I find the best place to find out all of the gory details with this is in the ASDocs, which lists everything. [http://je2050.joa-ebert.com/imageprocessing/]. Now, on it’s own it might not seem that groundbreaking, but when you combine some of these effects creatively you get some interesting results.  Take the Normalize filter as an example; not much to look at on it’s own, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some blog somewhere talking about the Normalize filter being awesome for colour correction on photos.  And I’m sure every webcam image could probably use a helping hand from the BrightnessCorrection class or the GammaCorrection class.

Link: FlashSURF – complex image recognition in Flash Player

by on 24th February, 2010 in Flash

FlashSURF is an image recognition library for Flash, distinguishable from other projects like the QR code and face recognition libraries by the fact that it’s just too damn clever. It’s a full colour, high resolution image recognition library that works in real time off a video feed (such as a webcam).  And it comes as a compiled SWC for flash so it’s ready to be used now.  You should at least check out Eugene’s post on the stuff to get an idea of it’s capabilities.

Seriously, some people are just too damn clever.

Minimal components: For when you don’t feel like using Flex.

by on 23rd February, 2010 in Flash

Nothing wrong with Flex of course, but Mark’s experiments got me thinking about using Bit-101′s MinimalComps [google code] all over again.  What are they? Well, they’re a set of simple components – Buttons, Checkboxes, basic containers – that are very lightweight in terms of the the size they add to your final SWF, and the processing power that’s needed to render them.

Why use the components? Well the Flex framework gets a bad rap for being pretty hefty on the download, and can be chuggy on the processor too, if you’re not careful.  MinimalComps doesn’t have this problem because it doesn’t require the Flex framework, and is pretty much the epitomy of minimalist design, which looks cool when you’re throwing your tech demos out there.

Well, I thought I’d give it a shout out!