Collaboration on the New York Subway Project (0)
6/25/09 •
In July of 2007, my friend Arun Wiita, then a MD-PhD student at Columbia, visited all 468 of the New York City subway stations, taking photos, notes, and drawings around each of them. I’m jealous that I couldn’t do the same, as at one point I independently wanted to document every station’s unique decorative tile [...]
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Collaboration with Artist Daniel Kohn (0)
6/22/09 •
I recently collaborated with the Brooklyn artist Daniel Kohn, who was an artist-in-residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a genomic research lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Daniel has recently become interested in the conversation between art and science, and how the processes of each one can inform the other. I developed an interactive [...]
Managing Cue Points in Flash Video (0)
4/01/09 •
There are two kinds of cue points in Flash video. Event cue points are points that you embed in the video that trigger an ActionScript command, letting you synchronize the video with other Flash elements. Navigation cue points are points that you embed in the video that allow you to jump to that particular point [...]
Dynamic Animation: Timers, ENTER_FRAME, and the Tween Class (0)
3/09/09 •
Dynamic animation is animation that is created on the fly (at run-time) and not created during author-time with motion tweens. Dynamic animation is essential for motion that responds to user interaction, as in games or complex navigation schemes.
There are three basic approaches to create dynamic motion. The first and second approaches use a listener that [...]
Playing Consecutive FLV Videos Automatically (0)
3/03/09 •
When you have a series of related video files, it’s sometimes useful to play them one after the other automatically so your viewers can sit back and watch all the videos play out in order. Many video players work like this, often inserting commercials in between content.
You can do this easily in Flash, and here’s [...]
