That Degrafa Globe sparkled some interest from the Degrafa community, so I’ve decided to make quick updates the other day:
1) country regions are now interactive on the globe, just mouse over a country;
2) select a country with a mouse click;
3) there is a new 2D source world map plane with a slight X-axis rotation;
4) new [...]
I am going to put my multimedia experiments and updates to media players and flickr mashups on hold to repackage and publish some really cool 3D stuff and interactive maps I’ve done with OpenFlux, Away3d, Tweener, and Degrafa.
Flickorama 3D Update and Camera Work
Inspired by the PlexiGlass (OpenFlux 3D) example that opened easy to use Element [...]
Since I am on the media playa’ streak this week, I figured I might as well clean up and publish my Simple Flex Video Player.
It’s been sitting in my lab for a few months now (Hint: check out my right side bar links). I just did not have the time lately to polish and publish [...]
I fixed some bugs and added new features to my Flex Music Player example.
New Features
- View Modes: Normal and Large. I plan to add Full Screen in v.3.
– Skins menu with Obsidian and Jukebox player skins as a follow up example to my previous Flex application CSS skinning post
- MusicVisualizer container component that you [...]
Ben Shneiderman’s Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies is probably the most comprehensive catalog of treemap usage in desktop applications and on the web, with some historical notes how the notion of treemap came about and evolved over the years.
Circular treemaps are my favorite. I think they are perfect for visualizing people from your [...]
After analyzing my blog stats, I’ve discovered to my surprise that I get the most direct hits from Google search for a simple Flex music player example.
If you are still looking for one, see my new Flex Music Player:
I added support for multiple tracks with the Prev./Next track buttons and a couple of sample tracks, [...]
There are plenty of sites for generating tag clouds, but this one just blew me away.
Wordle generates really beutiful and compact tag clouds from plain text, provided RSS feed, or del.icio.us user tags. There is even Wordle Advanced that lets you enter weighted words with optional hex colors.
The tool provides many different fonts, layouts and [...]
This short tutorial describes how to implement and load multiple UI skins in a Flex application, leveraging compiled CSS stylesheets.
1. Move all mxml component style settings that control visual aspects of the view controls to a standalone stylesheet (defaultStyles.css in this example).
For a good separation of UI design and easy maintenance, typical UI control properties [...]
Some folks complained that my default UI skin is too dark, it is hard to read photo descriptions in Flickr Flip Book, and the whole charcoal look and feel used in most Adobe Flex and AIR apps is wearing off.
So, I added new silvery Light UI skin to this app with an option to switch [...]
Flickr Flip Book is my new Flickr mashup to browse Flickr photo stream and view large photos with all the extra info, Photo Album style!
Flickr Flip Book Features:
- Flickr Tag Search prompt
- Flip Book animation with Photo Album pages displaying photos and extra photo informaion
- Detailed Photo Information: description, tags, author, number of views, date [...]
WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck and Luke Morton requires Flash Player 9 or better.
