Welcome!

HI Welcome to my web site of art, computer stuff, and ramblings. I try to only share things I deem worthy, which is really just an excuse as to why I only update this thing once a month or so. If your going to be downloading things from here you'll need WinRAR to unpack all of the compressed packages. Feel free to send me an e-mail if you have any questions or just want to say hello.

Current Projects

Truck Drivers Instiute
Once again I have teamed up with the people at Artist Web Builders to make another great web site. This time were not really making a web site, just making it better! The folks at the Truck Driver Institute have an ok web page, however when your at the top of your field an ok web site does not cut it. That is why they hired AWB who in turn called me right away to ask if I would be able to help them and I agreed. I'll post a link to the semi-complete project in a week or so.

AS3 vs HTML5 Drawing

So Cassie Lightfitz asked me about the new canvas object in HTML5 and at the time I replied that I don't know anything about it. I was aware of some of the new goodies in the future of the web but I am ecstatic with this new canvas object. The canvas object allows for scripted drawing on the fly, just like you can do in Actionscript. Now I naturally the question I had was ,"which one draws faster"?

So I made very similar scrpts using AS3 and HTML5 javascript. Going in I expected flash to be the fastest, as it natively handles vectors, however I became surprised when I finished both and realized that the HTML5 canvas object can be drawn to many, many times faster than AS3 can draw to a sprite. WOW! My attempt to capture just how fast the HTML5 drawing is processed seem to fail but at least the AS3 will return speed results, keep in mind all build time is in milliseconds (1,000 = 1sec).

Ok, what's one big difference? While AS3 draws in vectors the canvas object draws in bitmaps. My theory is that the canvas object actually caches a copy of the drawn star for reproduction while AS3 has to draw it every time. Try producing some stars for yourself. Warning, more than 100,000 might crash the HTML5 version while over 20,000 can crash the Flash version. If you would like copies of the source code to play around with, download the package HERE.

AS3 Drawing:


HTML5 Drawing: drawing stars Your browser does not support the canvas element.
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