Stroep

Just a collection of random works – Mark Knol

FindClosest (7)

March 14th, 2010, under actionscript.

findClosestWho follows me on twitter already noticed I’ve created a little app inspired by scribbler from zefrank. I also found another cool version of Mario Klingemann aka Quasimondo called scribblerToo. But the one where it all started is the javascript version of Mr.Doob. I wanted to try this in flash, and called it findClosest. It’s not such great as the other versions, but I really think there are some interesting things in here.

Quick post, this time no Flash but a Photoshop action that saves me a lot of time. :) First of all, I don’t use slides in Photoshop, but often I just make a selection, copy/paste that in a new window and then press ctrl-alt-shift-s to ‘save for the web’. I am doing this a lot of times when slicing objects. Since a while now I use an action for that. I hope this will help you too work faster. Key thing you have to remember is to create a selection and press F2..

Arthouse (0)

February 1st, 2010, under Generative art.

Mocha ArtHouse is an experimental space that fuses the experience of art, culture and food, and exist as a platform for young artist and performers. ArtHouse brings new artist and audiences together in a manner that is accessible and inspirational.

What a nice title! I have updated my blog design. No, there are no shocking new features, just a more fresh and cleaner design. Yes, it is still black and in the ‘stroep’-style, but I think it is really cleaner. I think it is important too keep improving, so I hope you like it. I added some nice icons in the sidebar and jQuery rollovers. I have added rounded corners (only shown in modern browsers) and I really think it makes the site more friendly, which should be a good thing ;)

More info here

Particle test center (5)

December 29th, 2009, under actionscript.

For a while now, I am experimenting with this new experiment. I created an algorithm with nested sinus/cosinus, to show of some cool 3d looking particles (no there is no 3d in it). It is amazing to see how many particles flash can move. I used components from bit-101 to have some interaction.

Check: http://projects.stroep.nl/particles/

ChainI created a useful util-class to make delayed function calling easy. You can make a chain of functions, by adding them with a delay in milliseconds. This chain can be executed multiple times, even in reversed order.