The secrets of the universe lie between 0 and 1

Interesting link for people interested in interpolation and tweening, with Flash/ActionScript or otherwise: Interpolation Tricks by Jari Komppa. An award-winning Demo coder, he explains concepts related to programmatic animation from a different perspective – he never mentions Robert Penner’s easing equations, but at the same time he’s talking about the same thing, even if using […]

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The beginning of the end

Well, 87.5% done. I haven’t talked much about it here, but back in january 2005, I went back to college – only 10 years later than usual (I’ve started working when I was 16 and never actually got a degree – I’m 30 now). The plan was to get a bachelor degree in Digital Interface […]

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Tweener extensions

The fair lady time has been specially rigorous with me as of lately, not giving me too many opportunities to fall into the hands of my mistress of spare time experimentation and open-source maintenance. As a result, I haven’t posted here in a while and, worst of all, there are a lot of Tweener updates […]

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New gotoAndLearn website

The year of 2008 starts with a bang as Lee Brimelow releases version 2 of the gotoAndLearn website. There are plenty of Flash and Actionscript tutorial videos featured on the website, including video, sound, and 3d, and I’m quite pleasured to find one of them being about animating with Tweener. Thanks, Lee! (also, thanks to […]

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BulkLoader is released

Arthur Debert – lead developer at Gringo and also one of the contributors to Tweener – has just released his new ActionScript 3 loading class, BulkLoader, publicly. The class allows you to load data from files in an streamlined way, and provides a series of features – like maximum number of retries, cache bypass, and […]

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Three Tweener tips

Arthur Debert, co-author of Tweener, has just posted a few tips on using some specific Tweener features. Sometimes, a few features not strictly related to tweening may not be immediately clear, so this is the kind of stuff that’s pretty useful; I still have to write similar posts too.

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Tweening in FIVe3D

You may not have heard of it, but FIVe3D is Mathieu Badimon‘s collection of ActionScript 2 classes to create 3d geometry in Flash movies. You can see FIVe3D at work at Mathieu’s award-winning LAB website. The big difference when compared to existing packages such as Papervision3D – which is also manages to be its biggest […]

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Yet again, misc Papervision3D + Tweener links

Devon O. Wolfgang has a long tutorial on building an image gallery using Papervision3D and Tweener. Ricardo Cabello has updated his audio visualization effect demo (also using Papervision3D and Tweener). The new one is here, and he promises the source soon. Looking very cool. Coincidentally, Donovan Adams also has a demo using PV3D (and its […]

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