Heres my second submission to the AR contest. i call it.
“A symphony of light without sound.”

enjoy

I’m really not sure how to deal with the copyright’s situation. so i just leave it where i put the corrosponding code most of the time, hehe.

I try my best to give credit above and beyond where applicable.

And really i have such a terrible method of coding  i dont know what i should leave from fork to fork and what i dont need as you can see in what i call my “vestigial import evolution” system.

Since my grasp of AS3 goes about as far as questionable grammar and syntax, and try as i may i am just unable to wrap my mind around the class system as of yet (just know this all of you Flex programmers… you are the enemy). Sooo to get a little understanding of what youre seeing here i’ll explain my Nintendo Gauntlet style HACK and SLASH  method of coding.

I take whole classes, remove all the public, private, class, static etc. statements, paste everything in the main time line in flash, call the main function from the root in flash and work out errors from there :-) my theory is, if I did it, theres probably a better way.

I know i totally break everyones very well organized and pretty code structure and proceduralize it to my understanding. Just giving you a referance as to what youre looking at.

Something in the source is killing my whole post.
Heres a link to the code in a .txt file
http://www.splengy.com/FireWorksMidiAS3.txt
Flint, papervision, FlarManager.

the magic here is a midi Java applett written by a programmer named “abudaan”. as it turns out the week i decided to throw my self into Flash and AS3 this brilliant gentleman decided it was time to take alot of the complexity out of AS3 and midi communication. He wrote a beautifully simple set of java applets that connect to your systems midi devices and give you variables in flash.

to be honest thats the end of my understanding about it. the beauty is thats all ive needed to know up till now.

theres a java applet and swf that has to be running in a browser to connect to the midi hardware and translate midi to flash. it only runs on a single domain. so you cant connect to it from a differant domain. for instance your swf and the midi java applet have to be on Splengy.com, or 127.0.0.1,

then theres a block of code i copy and paste from file to file that gives me access to allmost anything i could need out of in bound midi communications.

http://code.google.com/p/miditoflash/

I’m going to do my best to get an online version running for any of you that have midi hardware plugged in. If not i’ll post a few more videos of velocity response and such.

ONLINE DEMO INFO!!

If for some reason youve allready clicked the links and are wondering why it doesnt work let me first ask you, do you have any midi hardware? You’ll NEED midi hardware (a keyboard, drum pad, retro midi wind controller, free energy device…) to make this work.

First click this link. it brings up the java midi bridge.(update java and flash player if you think you maybe should please) it should bring up a list of midi devices connected to your machine. if it doesnt, refresh the screen once or twice, it should work. then when you see a list of available midi devices click the one you want to use to input data, and click OK.

http://www.splengy.com/MIDI/src/bridge.html

Once all that is done and you have a connection to the applet click the link below.

http://www.splengy.com/MIDI/src/ARfireworksMidi2.swf

it will bring up the SWF in a differant window.

I USED MIDI NOTES  69, 70, 71, and 72 FOR THIS DEMO AND IT SHOULD REACT TO THOSE NOTES REGARDLESS OF THE CHANNEL#, GLOBAL RESPONSE TO THOSE NOTES.

if for some reason those notes do not get a response like the one in the video, do the refresh dance, refresh one then the other, and keep trying. it may or may not work for you, i have gotten it to work here pretty successfully.

You may need these. same markers for both examples.

submissionexamples.zip Both submissions one zip. virus scanned right before upload.

If you take a look at my past posts you’ll see that this is really a compilation of most of my work with AS3 up till this point used in 2 files. though my acomplishments may not be great in the scale of things, it doesnt detract from the works taken to get there. enjoy them.

 http://www.papervision3d.org/ first go here, let it load, look around and come back if youre not allready familiar.

Before i jump into talking about papervision code and stuff i wanted to say a few words about it.

First the differance between papervision and pay per view(ive been asked a few times now) is you have to wait till tomorrow to download a pay per view event, but you can download papervision now. http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/

you’ll need to download the tortise SNV whammy to get the full source. its not that hard. post if you cant work it out, i’ll put something up on how svn’s work to the best of my knowledge. please dont ask me to do it, you’re WAY better off finding a tutorial by someone who actually knows what theyre talking about.  Now that i think about it, there just isnt enough BS on the internet. maybe i’ll do a tut on it just because i dont know what i’m talking about. wait and see.

Papervision has become my white whale.

Papervision 3D is an open source 3d rendering “environment” for the flash player.

It can be compiled in a number of programs, flex and flash to name a few.

there in lies one of the major double edged swords. about 1/2 the tutorials out there are written in Flex( I dont flex) and half the remaining tutorials are written in AS3 class files. the remainder are written in flash on the main timeline or via “other” methods of compiling. so finding tutorials you can use without being nearly fluent in at least flex AND flash is frustrating at best.

NOW on to the branch trunk system. if you can find the branch(dead or not), or trunk version that the person writing any instructions or a tutorial used consider it an acomplishment. I stood up and did a little dance a few times here just after getting a demo running.

Papervision’s core and extended group of contributers are in my opinion some of the greatest minds AS programming has to offer at the moment. The stuff that comes from those labs makes my nipples more than a little stiff.
Just a side note. i love these guys taste in music. its allways nice to go to a computeSpectrum example and want to turn the music UP or hitting refresh just to hear the song again instead of leaping for mute. thx.

heres a few sites ive driven the hit counters up quite a bit recently.

http://blog.papervision3d.org/

i tripped out on this page for a while
http://mrdoob.com/

http://www.sebleedelisle.com/

http://blog.zupko.info/

http://rockonflash.wordpress.com/

Lee Brimlowe is without a doubt one of my heros.

he’s up there with Alton Brown.

if youre beginning flash, or looking to expand your pallate lee’s work is so easy to understand, he has a great library of free video tutorials. if you dont know allready goToandLearn ASAP

http://www.gotoandlearn.com

sources included with tutorials

I use alot of the tweenMax classes the old caurina classes are still good, but ive started to use the tweenMax ones more and more.

http://blog.greensock.com/tweenmaxas3/

here they are.

I’ll try to give as much credit as i can where credit is due. if i forget someone I’m sorry but i go through a TON of tutorials on a daily and weekly basis, i’m bound to forget someone, sorry if its you.