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I uploaded the slide and some sample / source code that I had shown on the FITC tronto 2009.

My presentation is a part of the Cool Japan Flash Side A, and I talked about some coding tips for dealing with massive amount of data for data visualization.

It was just a twenty minute presentation, and I couldnt tell detail. So if there is any question, feel free and ask me online.

Slide of presentaion

Demo1: Original
Demo 2 / LINE
Demo3: SMOKE.
Demo3: SMOKE without effect.

Some more code will be added here.

HELLO, WORLD! SoftBank

We launched branding site for Japanese telecom company SoftBank. People and people and people… Many people in the park.

Directed and designed by Yosuke Abe, and I joind project as a flash developer. I havent been in the same team with him for 2 years, since neovision.jp. This time I enjoyed so much.

Following is credit.

Planning, Art Director, Design: Yosuke Abe (tha inc.)
Flash: Takayuki Fukatsu (tha inc.)
Asistant Design: Erica Sakai (tha inc.)
Sound: PEPE CALIFORNIA (bluemark)
Movie Produce: Takeshi Sato, Mayu Sudo (Rightning Inc.)
Styling: Toshio Takeda (mild Inc.)
Choreograph: Chie Ito, Memi Shinozaki (Strange Kinoko Dancecompany)
Lighting: Yuichi Nose (A-team)
VideoEngineer,Edit: Atushi Shimoyama

I wrote simple Tweener Extension, MatrixShortcuts.as

This class provides mainly two group of special propertys.

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We launched MoMA’s exhibition site, Design and the Elastic Mind.

In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design’s most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change. Designers have coped with these displacements by contributing thoughtful concepts that can provide guidance and ease as science and technology evolve. Several of them—the Mosaic graphic user’s interface for the Internet, for instance—have truly changed the world. Design and the Elastic Mind is a survey of the latest developments in the field. It focuses on designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes that will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and convert them into objects and systems that people understand and use.

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We (tha.ltd) launched new service called SCR.
SCR is our own service which publish highly experimental widgets and apps.

First product is an experimental screen saver, “Kaze to Desktop“.
It blows away everything on the desktop with storm that reflects wind velocity where you live.

Enough worth to see.

I made an AVM2Loader class, that loads AVM1 movie and converts to AVM2 movie!!
Its simply a subclass of the Loader class. Just use load and loadBytes method. AVM2Loader automatically changes internal bytecodes when swf is loaded.
When AVM1 movie is converted to AVM2, logically all as2 script should be ignored.

net.fladdict.display.AVM2Loader

Finally I found how we load AVM1 swf as AVM2.

• Movie should be uncompressed
• Movie should not include any as2 script

All we need to do is…

• Load AVM1 movie as bytecode with URLLoader
• Change index[3] ( that is 6,7 or 8 ) to 9
• Find the byte code pattern, “44, 11, 00″, that is somewhere around position 10 to 30
• Rewtire that to “44, 11, 08“
• Load bytecode with Loader

That it. Now you can fully access property and movieclips in the AVM1 movies.

Recent personal sketches with as3.
I thinsk as3 is too complicated to code casual visual sketches.

Now Im writing library named skechbook. Its something like proce55ing, handy and dirty, classes for daily casual skeching.

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We launched EYE-PROJECT, video posting site for the Japanese telecom company KDDI.

Simply post videos and pics, and it will be the part of the video on the site.
You can also get a small widget fro blog, that displays your videos as a series of mosaic pics.

I think this is the first AS3 commercial project, except flex component based apps, in Japan.
A lot of trial like as3, loading zip data, papervision3d, serverside video generation etc…
I was very enjoyed with this project.

produce : atsuko suzuki @ dentsu inc.
account : ryohei mitsuhashi @ dentsu inc.

direction / design : yugo nakamura @ tha ltd.
design / interface programming : takayuki fukatsu @ tha ltd.
design / system programming : keita kitamura @ tha ltd.
music : daji

video shooting : tohoku shinsha team.

Amaznode is my recent personal project.

It visualizes the relation between books, “Who bought this also bought…”.

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