Neave.com

Today I am going to tell you about a flash developer named Paul Neave at www.neave.com

Its a pretty fun website, on the title of the page he wrote "neave.com the interactive playground".. Looks like he has been adding stuff since last time I went to this site about 2 years ago. There are traditional games on his site but most of the stuff on this site are more like toys you can play with for awhile then put down rather than achieving a goal and a score in a normal game.

The Neave Dandelion is particularly interesting.

It is a flash program where you can blow into a microphone attached to your computer and make the dandelion blow away in the wind depending on how loudly you blow into your mic. (You can also play with it if you don't have a mic by just clicking with your mouse)

The other one I thought was cool was the Flash Earth part of the site. Here you can view a few different versions of earth, you can choose from Nasa Updated Daily Photos, Microsoft Virtual Earth (with or without labels), Yahoo Maps. I like the Microsoft Virtual Earth because you can zoom in the farthest and it loads up new images for each layer of zoom. You can also type in your Latitude and Longitude and see your house, then press the view in planetarium button to view all the stars in the sky you can see from that location.




Just a really cool site with ALOT of content to explore. Each application you could take hours playing with and some of them are really unique and innovative. Gives you just a little bit of an idea of some of the things you can do with flash.

I forgot to mention in class that he has a link to download all the Source Code for all the games and different things he built in flash to let you see how he built it.

You can download the actionscript with notes by Paul Neave telling which part does what and one that is really cool that I was looking at is all the code to build a Mandlebrot Fractal in actionscript. You can zoom in on these things almost forever and it keeps loading up new graphics, and its all code, you don't have to draw anything and they end up looking like this.