Flash on the Beach 2009 – Notes
Some notes i made during the presentations at Flash on the Beach 2009 (#fotb):
Bytelevel Workshop
by Lee Brimelow
Links:
getMicrophone()
ByteTrainer
http://www.bytearray.org/
number.toString(2); // displays the number with base 2
Chuck Freedman:
do some research on OSC and flash, email Chuck!
Cybernetic Art Revisited
by Dr. Woohoo
homepage: www.drwoohoo.com
links: OpenFrameworks
Epiphany
by Joel Gethin Lewis
homepage: www.joelgethinlewis.com
links:
OpenCV
OpenFrameworks
Box2D
Quick as a Flash
by Grant Skinner
Slides: http://www.gskinner.com/talks/quick/#1
Homepage: www.gskinner.com
optimizing and benchmarking Flash
things to learn:
- unittesting with flash!
- performance testing
NEVER MIND the Buffer! FMS Made Easy
by Lisa Larson-Kelley
homepage: www.flashconnections.com
steps inside a app:
1) connect to FMS
2) wait for conneciton + monitor
3) setup stream control
only one NC needed!
mpeg 4 video and fms: MP4:name.f4v
MP4: is the important stuff!!!
fms.ini most important parameters of the server (admin pass, license, …)
dynamic streaming using an SMIL file as the input defining different bandwith files with bitrates as parameter
DVR feature:
in Flash Media Live Encoder make sure “DVR Auto Record” is checked
it’s possible to do DVR without FMLE, but it’s hard to do
Live Encoder vs. Camera object in Player: FMLE better quality, because player has no h.264 encoding possibilities!
Pixel Blender
by Paul Burnette
Slides:
Blog: www.mad.com.au
Pixel Blender uses Pixel Blender Kernels and Pixel Blender Graphs
A Pixel Blender kernel gets compiled into a .pbj file, this has to be loaded into flash / embedded into flash.
In Flash the only allowed function is evaluatePixel!
Always use float datatype in PB! Send an 1.0 instead of 1 to PB.
Always send an array from Flash to PB: ["1.0"]
Pixel Blender Toolkit is the tool to use, but it’s hidden inside the Adobe folder in /Applications, so search for it!
1 2 | [Embed("filename.pbj", mimeType= "....")] var simpleFilter:Class; |
For Audio processing use shader jobs!
Play with Vectors!
by Koen de Weggheleire
Slides:
Homepage: www.newmovieclip.com
Connecting the Dots
by Mario Klingemann
Homepage: www.quasimondo.com
Union and Megaphone
by Colin Moock
Homepage: www.moock.org/
Links:
www.unionplatform.com/
www.user1.net/
Union demos:
Union test platform
Multiuser Tenonion
Jam Throwdown
Andre Michelle talking and showing audio DSP in Flash 10:
http://blog.andre-michelle.com/
Kling Klang Flash Audio DSP (link???)
Joa Ebert was livcoding a processing app in only 9:40 min!!!! fucking awesome and it worked!
Seeing Sound – Sound Visualization in Nature & Code
by Jared Ficklin
homepage: jaredficklin.com | www.frogdesign.com
links:
Awesome show, crazy guy 
Showed what is possible with sound and Flash 10, i loved the Crowd Star game and the autocrowd feature for playing sounds 
And it’s awesome what you can do with some propane, flames and sound -> analog sound visualisation rocks!
Space
by Joshua Davis
slides: http://bit.ly/Mm84J
homepage: www.joshuadavis.com
links:
www.flickr.com/photos/joshuadavis
twitter.com/JoshuaDavis
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