http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog tezzutezzu's blog, actionscript interface and visual programming Fri, 28 May 2010 17:09:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I developed this website for the studio of Boston-based landscape architect Mikyoung Kim. Design collaboration: Steve Rura Video http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/websites/mikyoung-kim http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/actionscript-3/spinningtype I designed and created this website at CTD studio, with very little budget and with a very little time available. The main task was to find a way for Felix to update his website quickly and easily.The website connects dynamically to the database for each subsection of the portfolio. The ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/websites/felix-packer I was commissioned to produce some animations for Miracle's Theatre play: "Cat's Cradle" inspired by the homonymous Kurt Vonnegut's book. The aim of these animations is to illustrate the 'calypsos' of Bokononism, the fictitious religion created by Vonnegut and practiced by the characters in the book. Video Flash application In order to illustrate the ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/motion/cats-cradle I was asked to do a poster for the Falmouth and Penryn community radio to engage the people of these towns in the creation of a new community radio. Code The main idea was to create several rays, representing different voices, coming out of a speaker. Using the open source libraryAlivePDF I ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/actionscript-3/community-radio-poster This is a little viral app I created at CTD studio to wish everyone good holidays. Text is transformed into a bitmapData and a simple collision system is applied to make the snow flakes stick to the letter shapes. Then the user is asked to send a message to a friend that ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/actionscript-3/snowtype 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) Design For this piece of interactive ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/typography/dancingtype After graduation and before moving to Cornwall, some friends of mine opened a small silkscreen studio in Milan. I wish I could have helped them a little bit more in setting up the whole thing but, before I knew it, I was already folk dancing by the docks of Falmouth. Therefore I ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/websites/leraclet 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 "The Cornwall Design Week" organized by the Cornwall Design Forum  was starting A few days after I arrived back from Brighton.Whoa! I thought Italy was a design based country!During this week I've seen works from local design firms and schools. In the end considering the quality of these works I ... 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. I have to say that volunteering there was one of the most rewarding non-paid experiences I have ever had. With other 14 fellow companions coming mostly from the surroundings of Brighton, we ... 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 It's an XML photo gallery that let you see the ... 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 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 This is an hommage to an old experiment (1998) by one of the artists/researchers I admire the most in dynamic typography: Peter Cho. Usage Use your keyboard to make letters. Source Here's ... http://www.tezzutezzu.com/blog/actionscript-2/letter-with-angles