Finally got rid of those icons and started using some of our own graphics. This prototype simulates the adding of a new connection (new user login) and allows each person logging in to have their own name and color. You can remove connections at will by clicking the minus sign as well. I also fixed the perspective so that the currently selected icon is dead center, and everything else forms around it.
Prototype_v002

I found some pretty nice Flash tutorials to help out the interface end of the VHood proejct. The first is the carousel itselft which I got from gotoandlearn.com, which has a great collection of beginner and advanced Flash tutorials. The other was from Pixelfumes and showed how to add a movieclip to a bitmap object and use the bitmap object to blur. The carousel in this prototype is dynamically created and calculated using XML, and has a draggable floating window that blurs everything behind it.

Realtime Blur Tutorial, Carousel Tutorial

Prototype v001

Update: Rewrote active blur engine. It used to convert the entire stage to a bitmap object and then mask it so that it only showed the blurring behind the window. New class now only converts the area where the window is into a bitmap object and then blurs it, hopefully improving performance when there are several windows on the stage at once. Also abstracted into an actibeBlur.as class.
Prototype v001b

Here’s a quick in class exercise that generates triangles at random 45 degree-increment angles and at a random color. The eventual goal is to add AI so that it looks to a random direction around itself, finds an empty spot and draws a new triangle, eventually filling most of the screen.

Triangles Experiment

My name is Joseph J. Schmitt and I am a 4th year New Media
Design and Imaging major at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I am proficient in Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, 3D Modeling and Animation, Web Development, XHTML/CSS, and Flash. I enjoy the entire process of design, from the beginning of an idea to the follow-through on the implementation.

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