You may or may not have noticed, but I've changed the subtitle of this blog. Instead of "Explorations of Flash, ActionScript, and Life and a Geek", it's now "Explorations of Coding, Science and Data Visualization, and Life as a Geek". Why? There are several reasons.
First: I'm not working in just Flash or ActionScript right now. Actually, I like to use lots of different tools. Also, right now I'm very much enjoying grad school (in Computer Science), where I'm doing a lot in Java. I don't know how I got by with the limited data structures in ActionScript for so long!
Second: I've decided to return to what I do best: visualization of data and science. Right now, I'm working on a project for visualizing the life cycle of Malaria. The new sub-title reflects this new focus.
Third: it's that time of year again, when GalaxyGoo friends and family start gearing up for taking the Cell Project to the Maker Faire. I'm thinking about how to improve the activity, can we also put together a cool installation of a cell in time....cells, cells, cells!
But don't worry, Flash and ActionScript are still among my very favorite tools to accomplish the visualization challenges I want to tackle, and I'll be posting about it quite a bit.
Friday, February 13, 2009
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2 comments:
Well, that, of course, is very nice you are moving on to java and stuff.
In my time, I did a back flip fron VC to AS.
Currently Adobe is extremelly evolving and I think they might soon offer even greater AS version, packed with all OOP stuff, just take a look at difference of as2 and as3 - great difference huh?
As to visualization, I'd suggest you to take a look at spicynodes.org, who soon will launch a public beta.
Cheers, Paul
well, I'm not exactly "moving on" :-) I'm just working in java *and* AS3...and other stuff.
spicynodes.org looks intriguing. Wish they had more info up, but I went ahead and signed up for their beta. Thanks for the tip.
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