I have been working on this graphic in between projects and have made it available for download as a desktop wallpaper. Enjoy

Download the wallpapers here:
1024 x 768
1280 x 1024
1280 x 800
1440 x 900
1680 x 1050
all of the above as .zip

Philips Medizin Systeme GmbH (the German division of PHILIPS Healthcare) asked us to design and develop a Flash game for their intranet. The game is a camel race where all sales people race each other based on each person’s daily order intake and it will be used as a inHouse motivational tool.

The game was developed in ActionScript 3, Adobe Flex, Flash CS3 and Adobe Illustrator.

We love Flash game development, AS3 and design and the game turned out to be quite fun…

Check it out here (all content, names and numbers are dummy content)

In case you havent heard of it yet: Scriptographer is quiete a interesting Illustrator extension ( and itis also free ). It offers you some nice additional tools and effects, which can make your life easier in creating your artworks when used with care. On the website are some open sources examples which gives you a good impression what is possible with this awesome little tool.

Found this great little example on manipulating sound data with Flash 9. This makes it a whole lot easier for Flashdevelopers to manipulate sound in Flash. I see some very interesting projects being created with this in future.

http://theflashblog.com/?p=181#

Most of you will probably know this Flash / AS3 3D physics engine already but I thought I’d share it for the Flashprogrammer who likes 3D and doesn’t yet…

From the site:

“WOW-Engine is a free AS3 physics engine by Seraf ( Jérôme Birembaut ) capable to handle positions in a 3D environmentand it is open source.

WOW-Engine uses the Sandy library for the 3D mathematical computations (matrix, 3D vector, plane). The inner architecture of the engine is also inspired by Sandy’s one.

Collisions and physical reactions are possible thanks to the AS3 physic engine made by Alec Cove, named APE (version 0.2.). APE is a 2D physic engine, it is possible to extend the contraints on volumes, and that’s the purpose of WOW-engine. WOW-engine extends APE, and allows to simulate physics on 3D volumes.

WOW-Engine is capable to handle positions and rotations of abstract objects, which need to be linked to some visual objects (2D or 3D). The visual objects can be drawn thanks to another library (Sandy3D , Papervision3D, Away3D for 3D).

WOW-Engine uses and depends of the Data Structures classes written by polygonal labs.“

Click here to read more, check cases and further development

1950s to 1970s Advertising, check out these awesome graphics…

First seen on Computerlove

For my actual project (a Camel Race for Philips) i had to search for a function which translates a flash.utils.date object into a calendar-week int. After a while of searching i found a coole one and i translated it into AS3. Maybe someone can use this one

function getCW(target:Date):int {
	var a = target.getFullYear();
	var m = target.getMonth()+1;
	var j = target.getDate();
	var S = Math.floor(a/100);
	var A = a%100;
	var aB = (a%4 == 0 && a%100 != 0) || (a%1000 == 0) ? 1 : 0;
	var jNA = (5*S+Math.floor(S/4)+A+Math.floor(A/4)+aB*6)%7;
	var w = Math.floor((jNA+(m == 1 ? j : m == 2 ? 31+j : Math.floor((30.6*m)-32.3)+j+aB*1)+5)/7)-Math.floor(jNA/5);
	return w == 0 || w == 53?1:w;
}

Alternativa3D goes public!

GSDH is happy to announce the entry of two new great talents on the field of Flash and ActionScript programming to our Cape Town team.

Edward Davies has started his successful career as a programmer and web designer quite some time ago and has gained experience in another agency and as a freelancer previously to GSDH. Edward did a BSc in Software Engineering at the University of South Africa. Additionally he completed various courses to improve his skills in the field of webdevelopment. Edward is fluent in ActionScript 2 and 3, Flash, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, XML and knows quite a bit about design and animation.

Our second new entry is Wayne Langman. He finished his training at the well-known institutions CTU Training Institute and the City Varsity College. Wayne is also a Flash-developer and gained quite some work-experience at a well known Cape Town based ad agency before joining GSDH.

Last but not least we would like to introduce our new Designer. His name is Ernst Lass and he is a true Captonian. He graduated as “Student of the Year 2006” from the renowned City Varsity College, where he did an Advanced Diploma in Multimedia Design. He is a master with the Adobe programs Illustrator, Photoshop and Flash and he has already gained some work experience at some other agencies in Cape Town before he was attracted by GSDH. We are more than happy to have him working with us.

GSDH cordially welcomes the new team members and is looking forward to working with both!