SED618 Flash Project - Splash Screen
My Flash intro is unusual in several respects.
- It is small and unobtrusive, keeping to the "clean theme." It is only about 5kb.
- It is definitely personal. It tells my story simply by its motion across the calendar.
- The effect is dependent on transparency (alpha channel from Photoshop). This makes the Moodle mortarboard figure appear to be running across the background, a continuous beige flowing from the banner graphic. You can see through the mortarboard's "legs."
- The main page has it looping, as does this page. The other place it appears is my intro SED619 page, which has it loop once.
- I automated the color matching. I used the dropper tool in Photoshop on the original graphic to obtain the hex color identity. I copied that hex data to Flash for the background color and the Master/Doctor color. I plan on using the same technique to color match the dates (2011, etc.) to my csun color. The text blue is a little off, designwise.
- I used an offset in Properties (H space) to align it.
- There are variable speeds in the mortarboard's motion.
- This animation has a high frame rate -- 30fps. SInce it is so small there is no meaningful CPU hit. The high frame rate is a luxury that avoids any jerkiness as the mortarboard tells his story.
- A related animation (built for this class) is at my Moodle site nhps.us. It is a modification of the original Moodle JPG graphic, converted to Flash with navigation buttons. They navigate to my CSUN website. This graphic is reproduced here in reduced size, with looping. The buttons were created entirely with ActionScript (code here.)
Todd Teetzel and Atomic Ranch
Before launching into my Flash Project description, let me say that Todd Teetzel's Flash-splash is awesome. I like it because it gets a nice 50's midcentury Mirisch animation look. I'm going to see about resurrecting that midcentury theme in some of my artwork because he demonstrated how germane the Flash medium can be to an amoeba-atomic-ranch update.
SED618 Flash Project - Global Warming Mathematics
This guy has more growin' to do. The idea is for a stove to make itself known, with an opening drawer. The oven knob evolves into a rotating globe. Then Actionscript displays mathematical equations jumping out of the globe, driven by a random number generator. A knob at the bottom of the screen allows the user to "tune" the jumping equations. Finally a text message describes the dependence of global warming predictions on starting assumptions. As I say, this project's got some growin' ahead of him.
Global Warming Documentation
Mark Bell SED619 Flash Project
November 13, 2007
Not done. Here’s a keep-the-faith screenshot. More to follow.
Miscellaneous notes – to be organized.
Source of globe animation: http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/multimedia/animations/visibleearth.nasa.gov/rotatingearth/ev11664_rotate_640.mpg.mpeg
Here’s how 
The globe was “sliced” into twelve segments.
