http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog tezzutezzu's blog, actionscript interface and visual programming Tue, 20 May 2008 09:43:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How can type communicate sound? Can simply abstract forms suggest melodies? These were some of the questions I came up with while developing this sound type visualizer . see this experiment (the audio in the beginning is quite low so please turn up the volume of your speakers) http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/typography/dancingtype Living in a little student town such as Falmouth with one of the best art schools in the United Kingdom next door is one of the things that makes me feel really lucky. I was asked by the twenty-four graduating students from the fine art department to build a website and ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/websites/fleet-exhibition-website A few months ago, while browsing on del.icio.us I came across letters-numbers.com, a portfolio of works by Steve Rura coded by CJ Amodeo. I was so impressed by the idea and the original coding achieved by these two designers that I decided to give a try and port this site in ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/websites/letters-numberscom-in-flash I was called by the nice people from Gendall to develop an application for British Telecom's 'Future World' in Goonhilly, Cornwall. The brief was to create a drawing game that could allow the user to give a visual interpretation of his/her idea of the future. The installation was to be set in ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/actionscript-3/drawing-game-for-future-world-goonhilly The main purpose of this gallery is to show a big amount of images in a small space by using a liquid layout that will change according to the number of images visualized. Once you click on an image you can browse using your keyboard arrows. The images are retrieved ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/actionscript-3/stripegallery A few days after I arrived back from Brighton, the Cornwall Design Week organized by the Cornwall Design Forum was starting. Whoa! I thought Italy was a design based country! http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/free-for-all/cornwall-design-week-mankowitz-lecture I just arrived back from Brighton after almost a week of volunteering at Flash on the Beach 2007. http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/free-for-all/flash-on-the-beach-2007-part-one As I really needed to show my friends back in Italy this beautiful land I'm living in, last weekend I developed a little photo viewer applet that lets you take a look at the pictures in a very quick simple way http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/actionscript-3/photoshuffle-image-gallery-in-as3 Last saturday I developed an ActionScript 3 RSS reader for my WordPress blog feed. It reads the posts from my blog divide them into categories and then populate each category with the thumb of the posts. It's an handy tool as it gives a quick glimpse of what ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/actionscript-3/rss-reader-for-my-home-page Here's an example of scrollbar with horizontal blur effect I'm developing for a cool project. By now there're several things to fix. see this experiment http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/actionscript-3/zoompan-scroller-wip This morning I've been playing with two processing experiments I developed during the weekend. The first one is a font "randomizer" based on the fontOutlineSystem library by Dave Billinger. I used this one for a poster of Fuzzylogic nights here in Falmouth. I'll post some pictures when we'll hung these around. The ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/processing/two-processing-experiments In these hot summer days I had some fun making alphabets out of funny things. In my recently acquired ultra-recycling attitude (Cornwall is crazy about it) I was wondering around this filled-with-wonders student house to make something cool. While going to the kitchen I found out that our forgotten project ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/typography/chick-peas-alphabet This last week I was taking a look at the different ways my computer could tell me that a process is going on: bouncing icons, progress indicators, splash images, but above all "spinning" things. It seems in fact that clockwise animations are the most common way of showing the concept of ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/actionscript-3/spinning-wheels An old experiment I did for my thesis: try to make letters just with angles. You can view the whole alphabet here. see this experiment http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/actionscript-2/letter-with-angles This is one of my early attempt to use 3d with depth of field. The original idea was to build a liquid-like menu for a mobile device interface. Actually none of the items are clickable but I am happy to leave this experiment as it is: at that time I ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/actionscript-2/3d-menu Welcome to WordPress. This is my first post. Let's start blogging. http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/free-for-all/hello-world