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• BBC NEWS | England | Kent | School creates its own Sim City
  school using modified version of commerical games for educational benefit
  (tags: elearning games edutainment simulation)

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• Who Should You Vote For?
  Give your opinion on 23 statements, and see which uk political party is right for you!
  (tags: uk politics culture)

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• Today's Spam
  Takes spam, applies markov chains and posts the results to a blog.
  (tags: spam generative art subversion)
• typoGenerator
  takes some words, searches google for images and creates a poster based on the 2.
  (tags: generative art design)
• Surrealist Poetry by adam hoyle
  takes rss feeds and generates random poetry from them as a nod to the surrealists
  (tags: generative art poetry rss)

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There are some very cool classes that come with Flash MX 2004. One of them is the Tween class, which allows you to use one line of code to tween a property of an object from one value to another. Even cooler is that you can use easing functions to make the movement seem more natural. The most obvious thing to tween is the postion of a movieclip, but it will tween any property of an object, so the possibilities are endless. The built in tween class is built on the tween class created by Robert Penner.

Syntax

The Tween class has the following syntax.
new Tween( object, property, easing_function, start, end, time, useSeconds )

The easing functions that come with flash mx 2004 are stored in mx.transitions.easing and are:
Back
Bounce
Elastic
None
Regular
Strong

each of these has an easeIn, an easeOut and an easeInOut function within them (eg Back.easeIn, Bounce.easeOut, Elastic.easeInOut)

Examples

In the following examples I am presuming you've used the following 2 lines of code, so we don't need to use mx.transitions everywhere.
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;

To move a movieclip called 'george' from 0 to 100 horizontally over 2 seconds with a regular ease in and out use:
var twn:Tween = new Tween( george, "_x", Regular.easeIn, 0, 100, 2, true);

To fade out a movieclip called 'clarity' over 15 frames with a strong ease in and out.
var twn:Tween = new Tween( clarity, "_alpha", Strong.easeInOut, 100, 0, 15, false);

To make a movieclip called 'logo' 50% bigger than it already is in 5 seconds use:
var twnx:Tween = new Tween( logo, "_xscale", Strong.easeOut, logo._xscale, logo._xscale+50, 5, true);
var twny:Tween = new Tween( logo, "_yscale", Strong.easeOut, logo._yscale, logo._yscale+50, 5, true);

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I had the good fortune to see gavin bell again last night. He's inspired me to start using this blog to post more than just flickr pictures and del.icio.us links. So I'm going to start trying to put some stuff up here and see what happens. :-)

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• QTAudioXtra
  a director xtra to manipulate the volume of tracks in a quicktime
  (tags: director xtra quicktime sound)

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