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August 10, 2005

[Flash 8] The sun and its shadow

Drag the sun around the earth, and see how the shadow of the earth changes. Of course, you will need the flash player 8 public beta




For this example, I've used the following new features: movieclip filters ( glow, dropshadow and bevel ) that I change dinamically when the position of the sun changes. To calculate distances and angles, I have also used some of the new classes developed for geometrical calculations.

UPDATE 20/9/05: download the source code

Posted by Cesar Tardaguila Date: August 10, 2005 08:47 PM | TrackBack
Comments

This is a cool example of new Flash8 features, but the earth goes around the sun.

Posted by: Kristin en: August 10, 2005 09:02 PM

xddddd

That's right!, but I hope the Inquisition doesn't hear us...

Posted by: Cesar Tardaguila en: August 10, 2005 09:12 PM

Sorry, but this could have been easily accomplished using flash 4...

Posted by: Eyal en: August 10, 2005 09:18 PM

No need to apologize, Eyal.

Posted by: Tom en: August 10, 2005 11:05 PM

can you post the source please?

Posted by: alex en: September 18, 2005 01:47 PM

Sure, alex, I'm packing the source code of the three examples, and I plan to post it tomorrow

Posted by: Cesar Tardaguila en: September 18, 2005 11:32 PM

Flash is somehwat overused and overrated. this could easily be accomplished with javascript and css.

see -> http://www.ncf.ca/~bh447/pngdemo/

Posted by: fearphage en: October 20, 2005 09:00 PM

Sure, and It could be also achieved with a Java applet, and with an OCX control, and....

But that's not the point. And this is not a discussion about if flash is better or worse that any other technology. And by the way, the example above doesn't work well in Safari...

Posted by: Cesar Tardaguila en: October 20, 2005 09:04 PM

link to a more compatible demo:

http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.0/demos/eagle-sun.html

Posted by: fearphage en: October 20, 2005 09:14 PM

same thing accomplished with css and javascript: (more compatible demo)

http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.0/demos/eagle-sun.html

Posted by: fearphage en: October 20, 2005 09:15 PM