JActionScripters

Today, the NTT DoCoMo has released some new products and services for this summer. One of them, “SH-07B” which is released from SHARP Corporation, has new function called “Standby Widgets” that was implemented by Yoshihiro Shindo (BeInteractive!, it’s me) and Yusuke Nakahara who belongs to the CD-IM. It was directed by Naoki Mima who belongs to the Rightninc, Inc. What I mentioned in my presentation at the FITC Toronto 2010 is about this.

“Standby Widgets” is a function that enables you to customize your standby screen. You can add, remove, or lay out built-in widgets as you like. There are some built-in widgets like bookmarks, calendar, and manner mode switch. Also you can change widget’s color to your favorite color. For phone and mail, it has a list that you can access recent calls or mails easily.

In all honesty, it’s not an amazing new function. However, a point is why the team has invited me. Can you make sense? Yes, it’s written by Flash (FlashLite). A special customized FlashLite engine has been provided by the device team, and all of “Standby Widgets” is running on it. This is our first answer of a question “Can we make better UI if we could use Flash?”.

Many Japanese mobile phone is high-spec actually, but its UI ruins the value of it, I think. In my view, this project is to improve it. Also I feel this project provides fun future to not only users of device but also Flash developers in the world.

SiON TETRISizer – wonderfl build flash online

This is new demonstration of my AS3 software synthesize ‘SiON’. This work may remind someone of ‘LUMINES’ (of cause this is one of my favorite games). The SiON can bring its feeling to your flash.
In this flash, I also use various libraries, betweenas3, froce55ing, minimalcomps and papervision3d.
I would like to say thank you for all authors of these useful libraries.

Enjoy !

AS3 software synthesizer SiON Development Center in spark project

I released Simple Metronome app that runs with Package for iPhone technology, CS5’s new feature. I just got permission to talk about the app.

Seems this is the first Flash made iPhone app from Japan.

This app is originally made for technical research, to understand animation speed and interactivity of flash for iPhone. The reason why I made metronome is simply it needs accurate and smooth frame rate. Version 1.00 is minimum implementation, it will be updated step by step.

Some people said that flash is too slow for iPhone, however as far as I see this app, Flash is enough fast for actual project. It may be not for 3d game, but for utility app. Flash CS5 is still under development and I believe it will be much much faster when it is actually shipped.

The biggest advantage of Flash made iPhone app is that you can easily build both iPhone app and online demo. In iPhone app market, many people looking for the way to promote their application, however only flash developer can promote their app with working demo on the web site!!. It’s quite strong feature, isn’t it?

This is sample project and I will make the source code open. It will be available when Flash CS5 is released.

Hi, my name is Yasuhiko Nishimura and I am an interactive designer at Business Architects.
The Jikkyo Generator 2010 website build by us went live in May.

The previous version Jikkyo Generator 2008 was integrated with eyeVio for the videos but to enable more users to enjoy the website the new release features integration with YouTube.

In this entry I will explain a bit more about the integration with the YouTube API.
(This entry will be about AS2)

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In the Spark meeting #09, I presented an ARMessageCard for Geoff. At first, a card on the marker seems to be white, but a message will be rose by particles moves if you tilt the card. It works like a sand painting.

ARMessageCard from Yoshihiro Shindo on Vimeo.

You can try it at here (Please use this marker). Of course, source code was uploaded.

A point of this Flash is calculating gravity from the inclination of the card to move particles.

If you defined variables like:

private var _mat:Matrix3D = new Matrix3D();
private var _rot:Number3D = Number3D.ZERO;
private var _v:Number3D = new Number3D();

*Matrix3D and Number3D are provided by Papervision3D.

You can get gravity by the following code:

_mat.copy(_baseNode.transform);
_mat.invert();
_rot = Matrix3D.matrix2euler(_mat, _rot);
_v.reset(0, 1, 0);
_v.rotateY(_rot.y);
_v.rotateX(_rot.x);
_v.rotateZ(_rot.z);
var gx:Number = -_v.x * 2.0;
var gy:Number = -_v.y * 2.0;

*_baseNode is provided by FLARToolKit.

First, invert the transform matrix calculated by the FLARToolKit to get a transform matrix of gravity about the marker. Next, apply only rotations from the transform matrix to a normalized vector for gravity. Finally, get x value and y value from it. If you move particles based on these values, it will work fine

In Octorber 14 2008, dotFes, a creative event for the web designers and developers presided by the web school and creation company cshool and the famous magazine for web design WebDesinging, was held at Tokyo Japan. There were technical sessions, talk shows, live peformances, exhibitions and more. Because it was held at the closure of a school, it was like a school festival for the web persons.

Before the event, leader wanted a movie for the break time. So I created dotFes Clock with Naoki Mima (Rightning, Inc).

It’s an interactive clock. All motions are controled by ActionScript based on the BGM. There are 5 musics for every minutes and different motions for each music. Illustration is always same, but you may have a different impression if the music is changed. This is one of the my favorite work.

I launched FlickrBoxFall. this is the fall endless I took photos .

used flickrAPI(adobe as3flickrlib)&Box2dAS3.
as3flicrlib is awesome.very easy to use API.
Because I developed few hours, part of used Box2dAS3 misappropriated my graduation works in collage.
please catch me on the twitter if you have feedback.

flickrBoxFall

Recently I launched a free web service / AIR application that’s called TiltShift Generator.This is a simple image manipulation app. Using this app, you can add miniature or vintage like effect to your photo on the fly.

Basically I made this application for a study of my next iPhone camera application that follows my app called ToyCamera, and QuadCamera.

Some people already introduced it, and thanks for an unbelievable more than 700 del.icio.us bookmarks! If people want, I might make an iPhone version as well, so catch me on the twitter if you have any ideas.

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