Archive for December 30th, 2009
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
large graphs of internet connectivity
Came across Barrett Lyon and the opte project - seems kind of interesting
especially the techniques of creating large graphs of the webs connectivity
“Lyon’s work tracking Russian Denial of service attack extortion groups has been featured around the globe[4]. He provided details and helped coordinate with multinational law enforcement groups which resulted in the capture […]
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
TextField rotation
Whist creating my first animation - I was trying to place vertical label text on the sliders. The text was not appearing - there are numerous forumn posts on this subject. This was because I was not using embedded fonts I managed to get embedded fonts working as follows
[Embed(systemFont=’Arial’, fontName=’spArial’, mimeType=’application/x-font’)]
public static var ArialFont:Class;
var […]
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Actionscript Animation
You can try out my with my first animation here
Several months ago I bought Actionscript 3.0 Animation - Over Christmas I have had some time to play with some ideas. I am interested in visualisation tools - especially things that help technical people understand better what is happening in a complex environment. eg. […]
