This is the link to my finished project....because of the size of the window...the text that is suppose to appear over every button has gotten cut off even though i fixed it a little bit in dreamweaver....originally all the text is visible.


Final Poject

final finished

i have come to finish my final project which is pretty much a false desktop....where the buttons do crazy things.....i didnt get to make every button do something because of the restraint on time, each button took a lot longer to animate than i had originally expected, but about 6 or 7 of the buttons do something so i am okay with the results. I focused a lot more on sound and sound effects on this project and im glad i did because they all seemed to work out. I learned a lot about making movie clips from this project that i hand known before so i have acquired some new knowledge.

An ambitious project

for my final project that involves the combination of 3 of our past projects...ive decided to re-create a desktop in flash...that when the user clicks on the icons...they do random things that arent funtional and dont really serve a purpose....so i will be tinkering with icons on the desktop and how they work and what they do for the viewer visually. One other project that kind of incorporates what i might be going after is this video called animator vs. animation.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=X8orofVRIlU

the animation tinkers with the desktop icons and i would really like to do the same type of thing. It will look like one is navigating through a real desktop...but once the icons are clicked on it will be obvious that this desktop doesnt do what is expected of it.

Finished project 3 "the randomator"

This is my finished project of the random still life generator...i learned a lot through this project that i hope to use later on down the road. Fun project over

http://www.cfa.ilstu.edu/classes/at350/mtmalon/random.swf

I wouldve liked to do more with it, but due to scripting abilities and a time deadline this is what ive come up with and i am still happy with the results.

Scripting

Over the past week ive been developing and refining my project. I had finally decided to create a random still life generator. I have 7 or 8 objects on the screen that will randomly change position based on a random integer assigned to a variable. The objects are only randomly changing their x-coordinate on the plane; they do not change their y-coordinate at all because that type of project would include many many lines of advanced scripting that i dont think i am ready for yet. The scripting involved in this project could be considered minimal to scripting in some other projects ive seen so far, but one has to start somewhere. I have gathered an enormous amount of information with will be valuable for future projects. One of these skills is the knowing how to assign random numbers to a place holder then using the number in that place holder later on in the project. I am pretty satisfied with the progress ive made on this project and i believe it looks pretty good. If i knew more about scripting i might have been able to do a little more with it, but i think for the first project that really involves more than 20 lines of scripting, it's not bad at all.

Random this Random that

I have had a little bit of trouble finding artwork that is random, but did find this example of computer generated artwork.

http://www.random-art.org/

I believe this is also a gallery of art that has been made randomly through a computer somehow

http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/awang/random.html


I am not sure what i want to do with this project because i understand that there are so many possibilities when it comes to having random elements in a computer. I do know kind of how the random programming works, but im not sure how i want to express that artistically or how much of my project I want to be random, i'll just have to develop some concepts and see how things go.

2nd Project Finished

Here is the link to my final project, let me know what you think

http://www.cfa.ilstu.edu/classes/at350/mtmalon/commentaryonsociety.swf