Tag Archives: utility

A better Math.Sin()

By jasonbejot | Published: March 2, 2009
Sine waves are great and all, but for us non-mathematicians they are difficult to visualize and tweak. So, lets dissect and analyze this ultra-common trig function. Scalpel, please A sine wave calculation has one core parameter, an angle. In AS3 this angle needs to be in radians. But we can expand this into five parameters [...]
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Resizing BitmapData without scaling

By jasonbejot | Published: January 27, 2009
Have you ever wanted to resize a BitmapData object without scaling it? Normally you would perform a matrix transformation on it by calling the draw() method, but that also scales it.  So how do you acheive non-scaling resize?  Hopefully this can help explain it: // create something that has BitmapData for me to resize this.bmp [...]
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PV3DDebug now with Google Code action!

By jasonbejot | Published: September 30, 2008
With the great reviews from [draw.logic], the dudes at the Papervison3D dev blog and just the response from the community I figured it was time to set this thing in stone, metaphorically speaking.  I went ahead and revised it (adding a camera is a little different now), included all the libraries (SWCs) you need and [...]
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