Ever since I saw Jeff Han’s lava lamp multitouch demo, I’ve been interested in ‘blobs’ or ‘meta-balls’. There’s a great new HTML5/javascript demo of interacting with blobs (moving, splitting, merging, etc) http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/blob/03/.
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The code is opensource under a MIT license so I decided to try porting the little application over to actionscript 3 to see how straight forward it is to port from javascript to as3.I know the trend is moving the opposite way – AS3 -> html5/js, but this is more a proof of concept of how easy it can be to move from one to the other. After about 2 hours messing around, I was able to port 90% (minus the window interaction and skinning). 85% of the code I didn’t have to change at all and was able to copy/paste straight from the javascript code.
Here’s the results below…
Version 2:
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Version 3:
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This could be extended by adding multitouch and making the dragging more consistent.
