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Exploration of Blend effects and how they apply on a cutout masking an image.

This is a strictly actionscript project. Control panels come from the minimalComps library by Keith Peters.

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Something I had wanted to figure out. The LandscapeMapEditor on wondefl provided all that was required to get started. The original code was under a MIT license and that license is therefore carried on.

This is a strictly actionscript project. Label and InputText controls come from the minimalComps library by Keith Peters.

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Background Information

Generating Random Fractal Terrain by Paul Martz. A good overview of the theory behind terrain generation (midpoint displacement and other techniques).

Actionscript 3

An extensive list of links on terrain rendering in Flash by Bruce Jawn

Impressive ones at wonderfl

• Terrain flyer.
• Terrain on 3D globe, with light source
• bumpy planet
• Landscape Map Editor (it takes a bit of time to figure the key controls. Left and right arrows to change the size of the circle, up or mousedown to add terrain, down to remove, z to toggle circle random movements).

Code found on wondefl can be executed within Flex Builder. Create a project File > New ... > Actionscript Project. Make sure that you have the Flex SDK 3.5 installed and that this project makes use of it (Project > Properties > Actionscript Compilers > Flex SDK Version). If Base64Decoder is required for the project to run, download the SDK source for 3.5. Locate mx.utils.Base64Decoder. In your project, create a folder mx/utils/ and copy there the class Base64Decoder. Delete the line that define the resource metadata as this requires the Flex framework (not included in an Actionscript project). Run your project,

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For a mini AIR project I had some issue with sandbox security violation warnings that kept coming up any time I was using DragManager on images for which the source had been set to some locally held images (within the User Directory).

To bypass these warning, it is required to load the bytes into a bitmap and to get the image component display the bitmap. Code below.

Go on another of page on runrev website:

Customers & Testimonial

A list of university is given. One in particular that interest me:

• Universite Libre De Beuxelles

Let's debunk a few more claims.

If you go on the runrev webpage presenting enterprise case studies, as of today, you will find this:

The part that I am interested in is "Learn how NASA, the University of Vienna and others use Rev."

It is about how "NASA used revolution for the Landsat program". In the article, there is mention of "United States Geological Survey" but the headline really makes mention of NASA.

Runrev recently proposed the following challenge:

"If you have code samples in other languages that you feel would be good illustrations of how revTalk can be shorter and/or more readable. [...] We're especially interested in : ActionScript (Flash) [...]

Runrev challenge is to find the shortest possible way to wrrite the equivalent of :


get the last item of line 2 of URL "http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=RBS.L";