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Elegant Ellipses

Pixelwit — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:38:46 +0000

While researching how to draw rotated ovals I learned some interesting facts about ellipses and thought I'd share them with you:

Ellipse Definition: There are many ways to say it, but essentially an ellipse is just a circle stretched along one axis. Think, "smushed penny on a train track" or if you want to get technical about it you could say, "an ellipse is formed by a locus of points in a plane such that the sum of the distances to two fixed points is a constant." Which means...
One way to draw an ellipse is to:...
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Rotated Oval Tutorial

Pixelwit — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:33:36 +0000

Making the transition from drawing circles to drawing ovals is pretty simple but when you need to go from drawing ovals to drawing rotated ovals, you might run into a few problems. This article documents some of the pitfalls I encountered and presents them as a learning experience. If you just want some solid code to draw rotated ovals or twisted ellipses, skip ahead to the end of the article and copy the last block of code. If you think you might gain from my experience then by all means... read on....

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How to Draw an Oval

Pixelwit — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:02:35 +0000

Drawing an oval or ellipse is about as easy as drawing a circle with ActionScript. When drawing a circle you only need one measurement for the circle's radius but when drawing an oval you need to provide 2. One for the Width of the oval and one for its Height. But before I get too far ahead, let's take a look at the basic circle drawing code used to draw a simple circle...

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Multiple PageFlip Books in a File

Pixelwit — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:02:12 +0000

Since a few people have asked me to help them add multiple PageFlip effects to a single Flash file I thought I'd write this tutorial just for them.

As usual, I recommend downloading the latest version of the Free Flash PageFlip File to be sure we're on the same page (so to speak)....

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Change PageFlip Gradient Flash Tutorial

Pixelwit — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:06:54 +0000

A few people have asked how to modify the free PageFlip's shadow gradients so I thought I'd write a Flash tutorial for anyone else who might like to do the same. This tutorial will focus on Flash's "beginGradientFill" function so keep reading along if you'd like to get acquainted with that function's basic usage.

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