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Flash 8 bug: Stage.height returns wrong value when bandwidth profiler is on

( Misc. )

The title says it all: Stage.height return Stage.height - 100 when the bandwidth profiler is on. To test, create a new movie, and place an action like so on the first frame: trace(Stage.height);. Test, and when in test mode, select View > Bandwidth profiler. Now, close, and test again. The bandwidth profiler should now be […]

Stop bashing Web 2.0, they have a point

( News and Misc. )

I have deliberately postponed writing my own take on the web 2.0 bandwagon as I figured I’d let the dust settle so I’d make an actual opinion on the whole phenomenon. Here’s the short version:

The current web sucks Web 1.0 was about money, web 2.0 is going to be about money AND data Web 2.0 is going […]

A moment of genius: partial differential equations and Flash 8 filters

( Misc. )

I was just studying for tomorrow’s partial differential equations exam, and I tried to memorize (because it’s very hard to derive) the solution to the 1-dimensional heat equation:

With initial condition , u finite when x tends to infinity. Now the solution is given by:

Basically this corresponds physically (approximately) to the behaviour of a bar of […]

C-sharp source: Download contents of m3u file

( Misc. )

I’ve been to a few music sites that allow you to download MP3s but make you go through an m3u list first. The m3u file contains only one line with the link to the actual MP3. It bothered me because I had to open the m3u file every time and copy the link in Firefox […]

FP8 experiment: Camera and DisplacementMap

I thought it would be cool if you could use a webcam as a displacement map source. That way you could warp stuff on screen in real time. In the end I ended up using the webcam as the image source as well. In that way it also ’senses’ contrast. It’s quite bizarre, even a […]