Metaphorical.net http://blog.metaphorical.net Works by William Ngan Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:14:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 en A quick update http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/metaphorical/~3/422419935/a-quick-update http://blog.metaphorical.net/information/a-quick-update#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:12:50 +0000 william http://blog.metaphorical.net/information/a-quick-update How time flies! It’s been a year without much actions on metaphorical.net. What’s up?

1. Helping Julia launch her herb website.
2. Getting into codeigniter, which is a cool MVC framework.
3. Playing with RIA goodies, especially jQuery and Flex.
4. Working on a few startup projects in the corporate land, ah.
5. Playing Wiiiiii…

Stay tuned. I shall add something new here soon. Promise.

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Wish you a merry and glistening holiday season! Ho ho ho!

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You will find a sketch of little fish in the Synthesis section of the book. I made the Pond sketch for Processing about 4 or 5 years ago. Time flies… it’s nice to find it again in the book.

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View Flash example and code »

This code simulates throwing a piece of card on a surface. It’s gathering dust in my folder, so I thought I should clean it up a bit and share it.

Made with Processing.

]]> http://blog.metaphorical.net/work/code/thrower/feed/ http://blog.metaphorical.net/work/code/thrower New Metaphorical.net http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/metaphorical/~3/154772618/new-metaphoricalnet-2 http://blog.metaphorical.net/information/new-metaphoricalnet-2#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:15:16 +0000 william info:milestone http://blog.metaphorical.net/information/new-metaphoricalnet-2 It’s sad to think that I have neglected metaphorical.net for almost a year. Broken things were not fixed. New ideas were not captured. Time slipped by.

So a while ago I have summoned up some energy and rebuilt metaphorical.net. Now it has a WordPress blog as well as a more unusable Flash thingie yet.

A new beginning!

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Actionscript 3.0 example that shows bubbles of different sizes repelling each other.

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Actionscript 3 example that uses forward differencing method to move a dot along a bezier curve.

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A collection of Actionscript 3.0 functions which deals with straight lines. It includes calculations of slope and linear interpolation.

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An Actionscript 3.0 example that allows you to easily create elastic motions. It simulates Hooke’s law of elasticity, which states that “(restoring force) = -(spring constant) x (distance stretched)”.

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A simple Actionscript 3.0 object that fades in and out according to mouse events.

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