Letter Fountain

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Just playing around with Actionscript 3.0 movement and animation. I figure it could be of use on those days when I don’t really feel like writing a new blog entry — just crank this baby up and let the fountain spray out a random post. Watch it long enough and I’m sure something brilliant will present itself, you know the ole’ “thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters” thing. Source code available here. You might need the TextWithVelocity class it uses as well.

Posted on June 13, 2008

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Nope, nothing brilliant has presented itself to me, and dude, i’ve watched this thing for hours. Maybe “hours” isn’t long enough.

Comment by Herb — June 15, 2008 @ 2:38 am

Hello,

This is fantastic !!

I’m beginner in AS3. I would like to do the same animation. But in your source, you use TextWithVelocity and i don’t succeed to do the same classe. Can you help me ? Oh, another things, i’m in flex = )

Comment by benbill — October 8, 2008 @ 8:15 am

Hi, I’ve added the TextWithVelocity class above for you. It’s an extended TextField with some added variables to hold each letter’s x and y velocity. I made some comments in it that should help you understand what’s going on. Good luck with AS3!

Comment by billy — October 8, 2008 @ 10:58 am

Thanks a lot. Really.
It’s very nice. I really appreciate your work and your help.
Once again, thank you so much.

So, let’s work! ;-)

Comment by benbill — October 8, 2008 @ 5:11 pm

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