ManMeng's Lifepad

WESATELLITES.COM

Phew, finally after days of sleepless night. Literally. This thing is born. Full blown AS3-ism. *Pats on my back*

http://www.wesatellites.com

Site mechanics? Was fortunate to play around with the AS3’s computeSpectrum inside. You can see real time visualisation of the song itself. Compiling time was a pain in the ass seriously when you have a lot of bad habit from AS2. You’ll get ton of undefined or unknown error. But for godness sake, I learnt the hard way and noticed there’s a lot of bad habit that I need to shave off. But the real challenge would lie on the full scale video itself. Didn’t really work initially as planned and a lot of stuff needs to be considered for performance when we scale everything up.

jumbleText Class (v1.0 11 June 2008)

jumbleText Class (v1.0 11 June 2008)
Hi there everyone, I’m hereby would like to share with you my first humble experience in creating a class for AS2.0, namely jumbleText.as which you can download at :
http://www.manmeng.net/fun/jumbleText.zip

What it does?
Takes up your text and jumble it up in a bunch of gibberish and then slowly forming it back to the original text. Look at…matrix? or http://www.yugop.com

How does it look?
Here I have setup a sample page : http://www.manmeng.net/fun/jumbleText.swf

What is this?!
It’s an experimentation that I did back then to incorporate to my long overdued portfolio site, but I felt it’s best I share it to see how I can improve from here.

How do I use it?
I’m trying my best to make it as dumbproof and easy for user, but at this point, here are what it is needed (refer to screenshot on top as well).

• Create a new font and link to “myfont”
• import com.manmeng.misc.io or import.com.manmeng.misc.*
• use an empty movie clip, probably name it, such as “mc”
• use this… io.jumbleText(movieClipName, yourText, width, height, textColor, textSize)

And then you are ready to rock! Hope you will enjoy it. Any bugs report or suggestion please mail it to siaukia [at gmail dot com. I will port thisto AS3 as well. Keep in tuned!

Wii Gallery?

I think this probably not something new, but I ought itching to try the very stylish and usable gallery style inspired from Wii Channel. Press UP and DOWN key to change in between the tiles.

NOTE: This version of wii_gallery is STILL UNSTABLE and MAY crash your browser. Try to refrain from holding the UP/DOWN key all the time.

[Toy] Type And See /w Source

Hello Type
I had not think of a name for this tool yet. Might will release the source when I clean it up.
Was originally inspired by yugop on his creation @ amaztype. But that was years ago before BitmapData is even out. That really made me wonder what kind of algorithm he thought of to make this work. A pure genius.

Update : 26th April 2008

Source file is commented and available for download at http://www.manmeng.net/fun/mm_sticky_particle.fla

Demo is viewable at
http://www.manmeng.net/fun/mm_sticky_particle.swf

[Toy] YouBrowser – Look For Video

YouBrowser – Look For Video (literally)
I had some chance earlier last year to play around with YouTube’s API and I’m looking forward to improve this toy. Basically when we want to find something, etc “look” we really want to look around. So I hope you will find this useful and have fun “looking” for top videos.

Do keep the comments and suggestions coming in to make this one a better one for all of us. Cheers!
If you like it, digg it or bookmark the url, will be permanent at : http://labs.oneduasan.com/YouTube.html