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Ruben Swieringa on Actionscript and a whole lot of other stuff..

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Pathfinder (AI)

In an attempt to kickstart my graduation-project I decided to throw together another AI-experiment (I’ll post something about it later), after staring out of the window with a blank glare for some time I figured I’d need a pathfinder algorithm so I sat down and wrote/typed it down.
The algorithm is pretty simple in essence — [...]

Colin Moock on Actionscript 4 (FITC Amsterdam 2008)

Last week at FITC Amsterdam I attended Colin Moock’s session about the next version of ECMAScript. As ECMAScript is the language standard on which Actionscript is (somewhat loosely) based, this means that most proposed features for ECMAScript 4.0 will also be in Actionscript 4.0 (hence the name “Actionscript 4??”). Do note that most of the [...]

FITC Amsterdam day 2

Oh man this was just too awesome! Today was the second day of FITC Amsterdam and it just got even better than it already was.
Right now I’m still rushing on adrenaline and waiting for fatigue to kick in, so here’s just a little overview, more lenghty reviews will follow in the next few days..
Having overslept [...]

Going to FITC Amsterdam!

Yes I am. Jesse from Actionscript.org was kind enough to hook me up with some tickets for FITC Amsterdam 2008, this is awesome.
I’m particularly excited about getting to see Joshua Davis talk, I remember being baffled when I first saw his work. Also, I’m very curious as to what Erik Natzke will be talking about, [...]

Untitled AI Project 02

When some time ago I was bored I started this little AI experimental project (Actionscript-only, no Flex), tonight I had some time on my hands and decided to finish it.
The main reason behind this was to get a grasp of the utter basics of AI. Alongside that I also thought it’d be cool to try [...]