Fresh Flash

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Drawing API

   • Keith Peters

   Pages 1-27

3. The Power of the Interval

   • Jared Tarbell

   Pages 29-53

4. Scriptable Masks

   • Lifaros

   Pages 55-83

5. Experimental Interfaces

   • Paul Prudence

   Pages 85-107

6. Reacting to Sound

   • Ty Lettau

   Pages 109-129

7. Points, Lines, and Movement

   • J. D. Hooge

   Pages 131-155

8. Bezier Curve Creatures

   • Lifaros

   Pages 157-187

9. Runtime 3D

   • Brandon Williams

   Pages 189-219

10. Visual Experiments with Dynamic Content

    • Danny Franzreb

    Pages 221-238

11. Video FX in Flash MX

    • Jim Armstrong

    Pages 241-259

12. Back Matter

    Pages 261-264

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So you think you've got to grips with the features of Macromedia Flash MX?

Welcome to this inspirations upgrade from friends of ED. Upgrade your thinking, upgrade your attitude, and upgrade your standards to take on board the host of exciting features incorporated into this version of Flash.

With this title, we run the gamut of new features, from the Drawing API ("to die for"), through new video compression, Scriptable Masks and Components. We explore the new territory with experimental interfaces, check out the improvements in the 3D arena, and quarry the back-end technologies to see what gems we can turn up!

Some of the best designers in the Web community have concentrated their efforts on this project. This has resulted in the highest caliber of work, including an exclusive insight into the creation of Jim Armstrong's New York Flash Film Festival final piece.

From the acclaimed team that brought you Flash Math Creativity comes this inspiring volume, full of brand new effects and discussion on what Flash MX is going to do for designers—and where we go from here.

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• video
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Brandon Williams is a senior at Spring Woods High School in Houston, Texas, with many years of mathematics and computer science studies under his belt. His mathematics focus has been single and multivariable calculus, real analysis, linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, elementary combinatorics, and number theory. His computer science experience is based on programming design, object-oriented programming, and problem solving. His goal is to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics. In his spare time, he helps run the math forum at Were-Here under the name of ahab, and works for Eyeland Studios as a games programmer.

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