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- Sound Manipulation in Flash
For a long time, there has been nothing worth shouting about in terms of Flash’s capabilities with Sound. Indeed, the furthest you got was some exciting pan and volume controls – admittedly functional but ultimately limited and uninspiring. Enter Flash CS4 and Flash Player 10!
- I heart MySuiteStuff!
My amazing Flash icon cushion from MySuiteStuff arrived today and I must admit I’m rather chuffed hehe… I need to find somewhere safe where it can sit proudly!
- Update of my projects…
A quick post on the fiddly little things I’ve been working on!
- Mel Harris Productions site goes live
Finally, the new Mel Harris Productions site has gone live!
- Sensing stuff…
OK, here’s another set of methods of getting information into the computer, other than my webcam experiments. A short while ago I read a very inspirational book by Brendan Dawes (http://www.brendandawes.com/) called ‘Analog In , Digital Out’ (at Amazon UK). He’s one of the gurus on Flash and all things multimedia. His book focusses on [...]
- Detecting motion in certain areas…with a webcam – part deux
This example is similar to the other area detection example – however it’s more refined, uses ‘slightly’ more sophisticated code to detect the certain areas, AND is more fun to play with. When you start the example, you will see three blinking dots towards the bottom of your picture. These are the hitpoints where the [...]
- Detecting motion in certain areas…with a webcam
Next – it would be handy to detect motion in certain areas of the screen. The following example detects motion in each corner of the camera’s picture – like a 2×2 grid. Each corner plays a different sound when you wave your hand in front of it. Now – it’s not the best sort of [...]
- Simple motion detection using a webcam
Well, I want to make some kind of music-based program or even a game. I haven’t quite decided what I’d like to make though, however I’m going to be mucking around and experimenting with wild and wacky user interfaces. Using a webcam as an input device seems a good place to start – the mouse [...]
