Today’s Site of the Day on FWA is none other than the recently unleashed LEGOCLICK.com, designed and developed by the dudes and lady-dudes of Struck/Axiom in association with Pereira & O’Dell. (If you haven’t seen it yet, you should check it out.) To mark the occasion, we’d like to share a technical peak behind the curtain of one of the more popular features of the site – removing a block of content.
I have been experimenting with processing and it’s applications for real-time image manipulation. I was inspired by and art show by Dr. Woo Hoo. He had displayed some jellyfish which would react to movement from a live camera feed. Using my handy web cam I started to try it out.
The first example takes captures the motion of my movement by comparing current and previous pixel brightness. Whenever there is motion detected in the pixel space of one of the circles, the circle grows.
The second example takes the bitmap data read in from the camera and creates a 3d point/pixel version. I am using a sin function to contract and expand the points in zspace.
The third example generates the points in 3d space based on how much movement is detected. This really starts to push the processor especially when its exporting an image sequence, but it’s still pretty neat.
For 2009, Struck’s SLC office is the new venue for the Flex User’s Group. Come join us for some serious geeking out here at Struck or online using Adobe Acrobat Connect.
Google has announced that it has improved its algorithm to extract textual data out of any kind of Flash file, working with Adobe’s Flash Player. This is huge news for a shop like Struck, wehere we specialize in user experiences that often showcase Flash. I am dying to know how well it works and what the limitations are!
Read about it here
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So you may have seen the premiere of “When We Left Earth” on the Discovery Channel last Sunday at 9 Eastern. If not, don’t fret. It’s an six part HD event! How do you know so much about this show, you ask? Well, we’ve just made many, many banners on the subject and that kind of repetition is pretty effective.
At any rate, I though I’d share a banner that turned out to be a little too fancy Grizzly Park full movie for the website it was produced for, and unfortunately won’t be part of the campaign. It’s not super complicated, but is a cool simple use of Papervision3D buy Small Soldiers Bon Cop, Bad Cop on dvd The Medallion movie .
Here at Struck we’ve developed a sophisticated piece of software that allows us to turn employees into digital characters. Brandon & Corey (pictured below) were our first test subjects.
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We have talked to enough people that would love a Flash workshop here in Salt Lake that it would be pretty stupid of us not to put one together. So, now, the question is what kind of material would you like us to cover? If you would be interested in attending a workshop on Flash at our headquarters, leave a comment on this post. Let us know what level of Flash experience you have so we can gauge what would be the most useful for the community here. Let’s Flash it up!
We have teamed up with Tribal DDB and Clorox to work on a new site, mealtimetogether.com. Spent a wonderful week in San Fransisco, believe it or not we had beautiful weather the whole time. We shot at a production studio called Goal Line, owned by John Madden. We played catch a couple times… it was spectacular.
Our Executive Producer Kyle Snarr has a very recognizable face…. but who is he?
The cast
Some guys just moving a ladder
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