The Incubator
Is it the "RIA-flavour" or the only so-so performance aspect? Maybe it's simply because there are no more white "Here Be Dragons" spots on the swf-map. Anyway: in my personal TOP-2 list for "best visual experimentation platform" Flash only finishes second place. The trophy goes to Processing a Java based environment for programming in a visual context. The reason is that Processing offers everything that is necessary to go on a visual exploration: it's fast, it has native 3D support and you have full read/write access down to the pixel level just to name a few features. At the moment I'm still scratching its surface but this tool is definitely a catalyst that is able to spark creative chain-reactions.
So I celebrate the reanimation of my enthusiasm for research and experimentation by opening a new sub-site of Quasimondo: the Incubator, my new sketchbook and gallery. At the moment it only features my journeys into Processing, but I will also add some of my older Flash creations that I think are worth a second look. See you there.
Posted at March 01, 2004 03:46 PM | Further reading
Mario,
This is awesome stuff!
One issue i noticed (not sure if this is something specific to my machine or not) was that after viewing a few of the applets, the area of the screen where the applets played experienced refresh problems afterwards. When i clicked through several websites, this area remained as a white box. Even clicking refresh in the browser didn't fix the issue. I had to close my browser down before the issue fixed itself. Just wanted to give you a heads up.
To prevent this I would make use of Java automated Installler for the Plug-In.
Sounds good - how do I accomplish that? Is that a special attributeI need to add to the applet tag?
You had to compile it with an extra flag... I try to find out.. I did that some years ago... I`ll post it here then!
Thanks to show me that Mario!
I'm very focused on Java-Flash integration, and I've to explore all this stuff
Best,
C.
Thanks for looking! So this is similar to the way Flash does it. I'll try it.
Just discovered your applets, I have to admit they're really well designed/coded. Special mention to the depth of field, the visual effect is really there even if a little bit slow.
Cheers
