FlashMN

The third Wednesday of the month, July 20th, will be a code jam using Context Free Art.

For those of you who attended FlashBelt, we saw a number of amazing things, but if you’re like me, not the time in the world to try them.

Let’s take a couple hours and see what we can make!
Context Free Art is a program (Mac & Windows) that allows you to easily create recursive, fractal, and simple geometric art with very little code.

Here’s the url if you’d like to have a peak before the meeting. (And get it installed)
http://www.contextfreeart.org/

As usual, we begin at 6:30 for pizza and socializing, then start in around 7:00 until 9:00.
The location will be at Easel Training at 23 Emprire Drive, St. Paul, MN

For this session, bring a laptop if you have one, if you don’t, no problem.

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Tonight at FlashMN, Mark Gason led a very informative beginner’s session about TweenMax (and TweenLite).

Mark prefers TweenMax over TweenLite, because TweenMax contains TimelineMax.

Basically, TweenMax is like Tweener, except that the former has some extra features added.

There was so much more in the presentation, but you’ll have to ask the Yahoo! Group for more details. I need to roll out.

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Wednesday, January 20th, Mark Gason is presenting to the group TweenLite.

• The advantages of using a 3rd party tweening engine.
• The basics of installing and using TweenLite and TimelineLite.
• Getting started using them, code demonstration.
• Some advanced uses you may not think of.

As usual we meet at 6:30pm at Easel training in St. Paul.

All are welcome, but if you could, please RSVP at the Yahoo user group.
The RVSP poll should be up about a week before the event.

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Tonight we are making bobbleheads!!! In case you want to dive right into the code, here are some source files for you to import and use for your bobbleheads and bodies:

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September 16th, Dustin Tauer will be presenting Flash Catalyst.

For those that don’t know Dustin, he is the VP of Training & Development at Easel Training. Combine his amazing presentation abilities with some hot new software, and we have an exciting event coming up.

The presentation starts at 7:00PM at 23 Empire Drive, and pizza / socialization starts at 6:30PM.

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I am sitting in tonight’s FlashMN meeting and am quite impressed with the stuff Dan Holth is doing with 3D in Flash. He (and his team) are working on a sweet 3D application that allows you to test out all sorts of floor tiling (literally floor tiles that you would lay down on the floor of your kitchen or bathroom) types, patterns, and colors.

He is using the “custom perspective projection point” to manage the perspective of his 3D items. There is an object called “perspectivePoint” that allows you to control the perspective.

The “perspectivePoint” object utilizes Flash Player 10, so some folks (I’m looking at you, Grandma!) won’t be able to view the feature.

Masks, by default, follow the 3D perspective - this is bad. Dan had to do some “special” stuff to make the mask work properly.

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Daniel Holth will be presenting on the DalTile and American Olean room designer
that Universal Mind developed this Spring. The talk will primarily focus on the
challenges of working with Flash Player’s new x/y/z rotations, setting
perspective projections and masking in 3D space.

A features over view of the application can be found at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcwQIJ974A although the actual application will
not be available for use until later this year.

I hope to see you everybody there!

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Wednesday’s meeting will be presented by Judah Frangipane. He will show you how to connect Flex or Flash to a wordpress backend without writing code. Use a Wordpress install as a CMS and Flash / Flex as a front end. He will also show you how to make websites (not the typical RIA types) using Flex. Go right from design to website in a few easy steps. No more spending time breaking down the design composition and then rebuilding it back up. Spend a few hours creating the site, not weeks. You will also hear the latest news on Flash and Flex.

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This month Chuck Stein presents Captivate and other e-learning frameworks. He’ll talk a bit about Articulate, Wildform Presenter, and Raptivity.
We’ve also got two other bonuses. Robert Reinhardt is speaking for 15 minutes to give a sort of sneak peak at what he’s covering at his upcoming workshop. And we also have two Flashbelt tickets to giveaway!

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Hey All,

Tonight’s presentation at Flash MN will be Basic Enhanced Reality with Flash (Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality…pick your term)

A trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dalw1QWfBxo

I’m sure you’ve all seen the GE Smart Grid ad that promises a “Digital Hologram” (liars..this has nothing to do with Holograms)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK59Beq0Sew

Victor and Yuichiro are going to walk you through the basics with the Boxheads shown in the trailer above as a primer to all things augmented reality with markers using the FLARToolKit 2.
http://saqoosha.net/2008/10/18/1585/

Here’s another good Augmented Reality video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6523761027552517909&hl=en

And you can play with our Mixed Reality wild little animals here:
http://www.yuiees.com

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