I’m currently working hard to get my flashdemo done by next weekend. This is the best way to learn the all mighty ActionScript 3, atleast for me. This years festival is 15th time the world biggest computer event is arranged. -> assembly.org

I’ll post all the effects and the demo after the competition is over.

Last month over 40 000 people visited my new digi-gallery, simppa.fi cosmos.
The FWA: Favourite Website Awards marked it as a site of the day 23.5.2006. Few days ago it earned a Dope award and I just received an email that tells me it is also a site of the today at Coolstop. I’ve received a huge stack of comments and many people have seemed to enjoyed their visit. It makes me feel happy! :)
I hope it’ll get some more recognitions so the link will spread more. I’m trying to find energy and time to create a handy way to answer and control the comments. For all of you that have asked me to response to your matter, I promise I’ll do so soon.

I’m not one of the greatest artists this global contains, but I have my principles as an artist and one of them is to offer community my perspectives and ideas from time to time. I could just spent my energy on doing money and would probably collect a “respectable” pile of currency in twenty years. For some reason that wouldn’t give me such a pleasure as comments like “This is quite a site. Inspiring.” does.

I’m not a saint, actually I feel like a monster. I do my living on whoring for advertisement industry. I give my talent, skills and youth for increasing consumption. I’m highly hypocritical person. I preach about how the over consuming will destroy our planet and still I support my living by increasing it. I’m a pitiful small human being like everyone else. :(

If you care about the future of our planet sign your name at http://www.million-against-nuclear.net to list against nuclear power in Europe. If you have thoughts like “…but the nuclear power is only solution to global warming.” or “…but it is the only economically reasonable answer to growing energy demand.” you are sadly wrong :(
Read more about the subject by using google or from ‘What you need to know about nuclear power’.

Cowberry dessert cream

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Concept:
Points flying around a flat space and drawing lines between each other when getting close enough.

Problem:
When each flying point is calculating their distance between all other points the code is getting slow. That’s because of too much calculation. There are a lots of unnecessary calculations going on. This code would run pretty well with 20 points, but I need more!

Solution:
The thing is that we only should need to calculate distance between points that are close each other. Nothing more. To do this I imagined the stage in squares and gave every point a category variable that comes from their current position in stage full of squares. (I’ll explane the code in a simplest way possible)

// split the stage in squares
squares = 10
sqx = stageWidth / squares
sqy = stageHeigth / squares

point[i].spot = ( x / sqx ) + “” + ( y / sqy )

Now after this I can check if points have a same or “next to” value in their category variable. And pum! the code runs much faster. The Cowberry dessert cream have 60 points moving and interacting with other points and it looks beautyful!

Blowing Negative 1.0

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Created this with Adobe Flash 9 Public Alpha . There’s 1000 shapes interacting with space and that one spot. Download the script (source) and if you play with it and create something cool please let me see too!

From this moment I’m hooked on AS3. It is sooo great!

(like allways the IE rolls this many times faster then FF)

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edited(8.7.2006)
Created little artworks with this code.

Blending Universe

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Red and little white

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