Love letter to flash

I stumbled across this on youtube. Absolutely amazing! Enjoy! Just click the image below to play the video! Enjoy :)

Fluid Dynamics using AS3

As a physicist I find things like this incredible. Fluids are extremely complex mathematically, so when I came across Eugine Zatepuakin's work on fluid dynamics I was amazed by the speed and accuracy of the simulations!

Just click the right image for a full preview, you'll be blown away! When I've got a bit more time I'll write a thread explaining how fluid dynamics simulations work, and explain the basic principles of coding something like this in flash, but for now check it out!

Move your mouse around to create dense regions and click to change the rendering mode. I love that flash is capable of handling these kinds of calculations. I remember playing a game called plasma pong which used very similar fluid dynamics to Eugine's model. Unfortunately the game is no longer available for download because pong is a trademark of Atari but here is a nice little video of the game in action.

Here is a little youtube clip of the game, just click to launch it! :)

Enjoy!

Flash CS5

I thought I'd just post a quick blog about some news regarding the release of Adobe CS5. Just check out the CS5 blog for a bit more information! Here is a video of Richard Galvan discussing the release, and some of it's features at Flash on the Beach in Brighton last month. Its looking very cool.



Adobe Flash CS5 Viper presented on FOTB 2009! - www.CS5.org from Adobe CS5

While I'm on the topic of Adobe Product Endorsement haha, I thought I'd let you all know about Flash Catalyst. For those of you who aren't programmers but want to get started on some flash based websites or interactive applications, check it out. There is a beta 2 release currently downloadable from the Adobe website, and it looks really good!

Update: Some really big news on CS5 (actual flash, and not catalyst). Instead of just being able to export .swf you will be able to export .ipa! iPhone apps created entirely in flash. This is incredible news!

So excited, waiting for the beta to be released, check out a preview here