Sometimes I use Flash to help generate still images. The Candy Cosmos SWF which I recently posted lead to the following:
The last one “Gold Glory” is a color adjusted and sharpened version of the 3rd one “Faded Glory”.
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A while ago, I wrote a Color Fading tutorial for ActionScript.org which provided nearly all the functions you’d ever want for fading colors. Did you notice that I said “nearly”? Well, today I’ve added yet another weapon to my color-fading code arsenal called “fadeHex”. The name probably won’t put fear in the hearts of fellow code warriors but it’s a powerful tool none the less. In essence, it lets you specify two colors, then creates a color gradient from the first color to the second and lets you choose a color at any point on that gradient. …
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I’ve become fairly familiar with the Flash Date object and thought I’d share some handy code showing how to append the proper suffix to a date or any other number. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, a “number suffix” or “ordinal indicator” is the string of letters that follows a number to help make it more human readable. For example the number suffix “nd” makes “May 2nd, 2007” a little easier to read than “May 2, 2007”.
Here’s the code I wrote to handle all my numeric and date suffix needs: …
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