Busy week with Flash
I knocked off a couple of jobs this week (well for the most part anyway). One was an interface for a CD of photos that will be included in a French book. It is a Flash interface that dynamically loads data and photos. I only need to add the content when I get it from the author. I tried to make the style kind of like a parchment, old manuscript kind of thing. As I've been doing the past year, it's written in Actionscript 3.0. I ran into a goofy problem with AS 3.0 in the project when I simply wanted to feed a variable to a function for a button so that it would update a counter and load all the right data (photo, title, description, page counter). The workaround was to give each button a name that included the info I wanted to pass to the function. Then I would strip the info from the name of the button that was clicked and feed it to the function. This would have been a lot easier to do in AS 2.0 and looking back I probably should have just done this project in AS 2, but I'm trying to stick with 3 so I learn it better.
The second project I worked on was an animation of the electrophoresis process. That's how they compare DNA samples. After watching quite a few YouTube videos of the process, I just drew the instruments freehand in Flash. I had thought about doing 3D, but thought it would take too long for what it would be displaying. I used a particle system code to make little bubbles in the liquid chemical. Not exactly accurate, but it does show that something is going on when electricity is applied the chemical. Here's what I came up with:
Next week I need to try and finish edits for the CHANCE project. I need to get that project done so I can move on to some other things I've been trying to accomplish. Hopefully February will allow me to try some new things.
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