AS3 / JS Constrain a value in one line

Here is a little snippet to constrain a value in a single line. It works by using two nested inline conditionals. The ‘else’ part of the first conditional is another conditional. It may not be the best approach but it works and is much easier and faster to write than two if-else statements. In English […]

AS3 Getting colours blended between two other colours

Here is another function that can be added to my ColourUtil class. This one gets a specified number of colour steps between two blended colours. I thought it would be much harder to achieve than it is, luckily the AS3 Color class has the static method interpolateColor which calculates a single colour at a specified […]

JS Transform Handles

The other day I was playing around with Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker and I had the idea of using HTML/JS/CSS to create transformable divs using transform handles and a bounding box. I did a quick search for any existing examples of HTML transform handles but i couldn’t find anything so I decided to give it a […]

Inspiring Inspiration #9

A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design, mostly if not all from Vimeo…

AS3 Hex Colour Dodge blending utility

The following is a function that takes two hex colours – a top colour and a bottom colour – and blends them using the Colour Dodge blend mode as found in Illustrator of Photoshop. This is handy for dynamically generating colour variants based on the blend mode. Instead of blending two display objects it simply […]

AS3 Easy gapless sound looping solution

If you have come accross the issue of sounds not looping seamlessly in a Flash project then try the following.Simply offset the start of the sound by 80 milliseconds: