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Wow, over 8 months, and my site is now back online, at a brand new domain, mattpollitt.co.uk. Over the next two weeks, I’m hoping to get back to posting and put some of things i have been up to lately on here, including a few conferences, work @ ustwo , and as recently announced, some details into the work we have been doing on notus.

This was originally a test post to see if i could get flash working ok in wordpress. Since it looks nice, i have decided to leave it here.

This is actually a little fun particle generator i knocked together on the plane to Torronto, on my recent trip to FITC Mobile to run on a high end fl3 device. The motion is code generated, and the particles are a mix of minimal code and pre-made timeline tweens, including the colour shift. At the end of each particle motion, the clip deletes it’s self and frees up memory . The combination also means the processor is not bombarded by multiple instances and movies.

I have multiplied the number of particles created by 3 for the desktop version though, and added motion on 3 axis using a basic sine calculation.

I have just put a flv demo online for one of the new FL applications i have been working on.

It is in effect a mobile “channel” for a company called Stream that provide On Demand video via set-top boxes & a broadband connection in your home.

The mobile client allows you to log in and view Stream’s content on the move.

It is a completely dynamic menu system, updated via the server, which allows new content to be added on the fly.

The video is handled via Flash media server, and streamed directly to the handset.

The Demo application is connected to the internet by a o2 3G connection in this video.

view the demo here, (apologies for lack of sound)

DEMO LINK

check out stream’s online service @ streamOnline.co.uk
matt