Maths

At what point in education do you learn about real maths? I've just spent ages looking into the Riemann Zeta function and I'm frustrated that I've never been taught anything like it before. What goes on in university maths? For now I'm stuck with logs and vectors and other boringly simple things.

And if anyone can explain why 1+1+1+1+... = -1/2 and not infinity I would appreciate it.

Flickr

I'm gunna just whore mine for a second. I've only just got it and it seems quite nice, but I really hate yahoo, mainly for it's bastardization of exclamation marks.

it just makes sentences confusing to read...

Internet sucking

This conversation has quickly turned into the four yorkshire men but with internet connections.

At 11/17/09 05:07 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: My god
(nsfw) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egcXvqiho 4w

I couldn't decide if it was funny, disgusting or awesome. One of the most WTF videos I've seen in a while

That was the weirdest thing I've seen on youtube since it launched. That was amazing.

At 11/16/09 11:01 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Math is awesome
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/glaie l-gamer/insect-fractal

That's pretty amazing. All I've made is a zoomable Manelbrot set renderer, but I've not contemplated creating new fractals, especially 3D ones. I think you've inspired me :D

Mini Fulp

I can just imagine in 15 years, mini Fulp yelling at his mum and dad and quitting the family business to fulfill his dream of become a office supplies manager.

OR him and Tom go around dressed in purple chainsawing everyone.

2000-2002ish, flash 5 was a bitch, but I kinda liked how lame AS1 was. Makes me a bit sentimental thinking about it :)

I've come along quite a bit, my very first 'game' was a button flashing up for 1 frame and having to click it in that split second, to "test your reactions", but in the end it was just pants. Now I'm making physics engines and properly advanced stuff, which is nice.

At 11/8/09 06:51 AM, knugen wrote: Did anyone try this thing out? It's almost unbelievable how he "guesses" right almost every single time :O

Didn't get Keith Chegwin.

good old cheggers...

Wolfram Alpha

Anyone else use it? I'm just amazed at how versatile it is. (I kinda pillaged it in that example but you get my drift.) In my opinion it's a lot more useful than wikipedia for research, but that's mainly as I do sciency and maths things for A level, so everything is given conclolisely and nicely but not explained detail.

Also: lol

Quite a lot of animators have one, but it's not 100%; Luis has one but famously loathes it. However, most people have them and like them, but it's not a guarantee. If you can draw with pens and paper, but not on the mouse, you'd probably like using one.

At 10/31/09 02:39 AM, aspera34 wrote: Thanks--i'm sure the answer is in google somewhere---but i figure i'll ask here first before i try that method.

Swap that method around. First thing on google looks like it does the trick.

At 10/28/09 08:58 PM, Saza wrote:

At 10/28/09 08:52 PM, trig1 wrote: I've had to cut down on 'your mum's, as I found out the other day that one of my friend's mum actually is dead. Fun times.

Oh man, how guilty did you feel after that :O

I didn't actually say one to her, but said it to a friend in conversation with both of them. That was awkward and horrible.

Watercolours

Today I used them for the first time, and I love it. It's the only real way I can colour a picture in without hating the end result. Problem is I've only got 6 colours including white D:

L4D2

When's the demo coming out for us non-preordering peasents? I can't see anything to do with it on steam.

BONUS FACT: the british cover act's hand is facing the other way to avoid the 'V' sign, and it looks silly.

At 10/28/09 06:00 PM, Saza wrote: Me and my friend devised a funny comeback to the infamous "Your mum". We used to get all the chavs round here saying it so our new comeback (or old, used if for ages now) is simply:

Your mum's dead.

Oh how wonderful.

I've had to cut down on 'your mum's, as I found out the other day that one of my friend's mum actually is dead. Fun times.

COD4:2 Airport Level

Just watched it (link), and it's kinda surprizing. That level would be weird playing it. I almost couldn't kill companion cube, let alone that. I know it's fake and just pixels and the rational part of my brain is fine with it, but it's weird. I could mow down grandmas in GTA all day but this is a new level of game-induced guilt.

I wish I was joking about companion cube.

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Sorry for double post.

At 10/20/09 08:51 PM, jrdnllrd wrote: Also, does anyone know how to copy array values? I can seem to get it. Just a copy of the reference. Nothing I tried seems to work including looping over the array.

Concat does it.

var a = [1, 2, 3, 4]
var b = a;
var c = a.concat();
a[0] = "POO";
trace(b[0]);
trace(c[0]);

:D

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/3709/483 79_magnifying_glass.php

Scroll wheel / change number to change magnification, click to scroll through magnification types (fisheye at 0.5 is best though).

My special recipe

At 10/25/09 10:15 PM, zrb wrote: Although none of them ressemble a comic, unless I'm missing something, I like your style and think you could pull it off.
Start now :)

Yeah, I was using the term webcomic very loosely, more of a selection of doodles.

But thanks :D I'm gunna try to get it all sorted within a month.

Not really a feature but on CS3, go help>about and then click on the second (C) sign (just after 'Flash'), and a bunch of pictures of the developers appear :D

+ when you're running the swf, press Cntrl+B (or view>bandwidth profiler), it brings up a nice graph, which shows how big filesize-wise each frame is.

Webcomic?

Recently I've been considering creating a webcomicy website, so to start myself off I've scanned in a couple of pages from my sketchbook. If you guys could give some feedback I'd be really happy.

Bear in mind all of these are just raw scans from paper, no photoshop touch ups, so they would look nicer if I was going to do it more seriously and make final drawings from them, at the moment they look very biro-y.

At 10/10/09 09:10 PM, El-Presidente wrote: They fixed it trig :/

Definitely works, I looked again after you posted to double check. It has to be those three specific games in English, via download, but it could be specific to Britain, so if you live outside use a British proxy. I've already done it, it definitly works.

EA's site bugs out: Free games

At the moment, EA has fucked itself over and it's website thinks that if you add Mercinaries 2, Mirrors Edge and Dead space to your basket then it bugs out and says it costs nothing :D Totally legal as it's their website that's broken.

http://eastore.ea.com/store/eaemea/cat/o ffers/categoryID.14365500

Defo works in Britian, you might need a proxy for everyone else.

Premeptive pics or it didn't happen.

That's someone else's screeny so don't judge from the open tabs lol.

At 10/5/09 04:45 PM, 4urentertainment wrote: Anyone saw this before?

Old and evil news. It's been there for years, but he still hasn't taken it down.

At 10/5/09 11:11 PM, Duchednier wrote: This show sounds familiar but after checking youtube i couldn't really find anything, cept maybe this

I'm very dissapointed in you.

Derren Brown

What'd everyone think of the hour long program at how to loose £5,000 on a roulette wheel? I just laughed for like 5 minutes straight :D Quite a few conspiracy theories going round, but I don't believe them.

Today I programmed pong into my calculator. Life is good.

Everyone keeps suggesting the thing that you've already said you've tried.

However, the way you're doing it is probably the most efficient (except possibly the bitmap data method suggested by doomsday, but I've not done/seen a speed test for it), the only way I can see of you improving it would be to add 'break' inside the if statement, meaning the rest of the loop would be cancelled after it has found one box it hits, saving a few iterations.

@Zuggz, sorry dude. Definitely chase the sponsor up on it, they don't want any bad press about it, so will probably help you out and try to stop CE being a shitbag.

At 9/22/09 02:01 PM, Paranoia wrote: In other news, I swear anyone who needs inspiration for monsters or something should just take a wiki-walk through marine arthropods. There are some awesome species out there.

Cuttlefish = awesome. Just looking at them makes me so happy. Imagine an octopus, chameleon, Mr T, sting ray, and a lion fish had a baby together. They change colour, can ink, have tentacles, eat each other, incredibly smart, sometimes poisonous and tasty. My life ambition is to own one :D

At 9/14/09 04:46 PM, knugen wrote: link

Wow, that's pretty cool, especially for 25 lines.

At 9/14/09 12:47 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: For an AS3 contest a while back, I made a 3D cellular automaton.

Only CS3 for little old me. Compiled version anywhere? I'm kinda excited :D

What I gave you, in hindsight, was probably a bad move for giving a non-coder. Best idea would have been a Vcam, which is essentially a viewfinder for a flash movie. This is AS2, so make sure your publish settings reflect this.

Download and explaination, more info.

At 9/13/09 05:43 PM, Paranoia wrote: You know you've got a problem with procrastination...

You commit an evening to finishing final boss sprites but instead spend it making tastless 9/11 parodies in a rendition of Conway's Game of Life...

it's amazing how fun the simple things can be sometimes... GO, gliders, GO!

I've recently become obsessed with cellular automata. I've made a wireworld sim, a cyclic automata, an averaging cells one (don't know the real name for that one), and rules 31, 90, and 184. The only big ones I haven't made is Conways Game of Life and Langton's ant.

At 9/13/09 04:30 PM, Mystery-Moon-Pie-Aud wrote: Thank you very much! I'm not all good with AS but this seems easier. Now for the next simple question. How do I insert AS3 into the flash? I know it has something to do with putting it in a symbol.

To be more general about putting actionscript into a flash, press F9 to bring up the actionscript panel and put the code there.

At 9/13/09 04:30 PM, Mystery-Moon-Pie-Aud wrote: Thank you very much! I'm not all good with AS but this seems easier. Now for the next simple question. How do I insert AS3 into the flash? I know it has something to do with putting it in a symbol.

It depends on what type of flash your making. Go File > publish settings, and see what version of actionscript you're using. Put the right one out of the two pieces of code I gave you before (you only need one of them) on the first frame of any layer on the main timeline, and everything should work :)

At 9/13/09 02:17 PM, jmtb02 wrote: I got married yesterday, what are you guys up to this weekend?

LOL

HAPPY MARRIAGE

Open flash, file>open, change the file type to all files, and just open your gif, and flash does the rest.