These Demo's are Flash animations, shockwave for flash (swf) files, plunked into a web page and displayed by a player plugin invoked by the browser. A huge number of web users, 98%+, have this player on their systems whether they know it or not. Flash can be art or functionality intensive, or both, and it's insulated from the "browser battles" and standards implementation confusion, all Macromedia, and therefore works very predictably.
The graphics are download friendly because they are vector images and are mathematically rendered. This also means that they can be expanded to any size onscreen during animations without getting that "square pixel" look.
Each new version of Macromedia Flash further enhances actionscript's functionality. Actionscript, a language very like javascript, allows the user to control time lines and objects on stage and now makes it possible to create dynamic pages by inputting data from files or databases. This makes you wonder about the future of HTML.
View Demo's: Rain FX, The Face, Alarm Clock, Background FX, and finally Building Blocks.
Flash demos
Javascript demos
Graphics, image effects & cartoons
Support Artists for
digital photography,
image editing, prints &
wallpaper downloads
McPhinn Labs for
sound editing demos & downloads
Cliff's Notes for humor and opinion
Cheep Chick - for social observation
