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I needed an interesting new linear texture so I made this SWF to generate rectangular shapes with the following characteristics:

• All corners of each rectangular shape align on a single “X” pattern.
• The “X” crosses through the center of an invisible rectangle with 90 degree corners.
• The 90 degree corners are each located at the middle of their respective corner areas.

Getting everything to work the way I wanted was a bit more complicated than I initially expected.  The code for the above SWF looks like this: ...
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A while ago I wrote a Hexadecimal Color Fading Tutorial explaining how to select a single color at any point on a gradient between two specified colors. In that tutorial there was a function which efficiently broke each of the 2 specified colors into their Red, Green and Blue components and then calculated a single new color at a specified point between them.

Here's what the code looks like: ...
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This tutorial covers the basic concepts needed to draw a simple spiral with ActionScript. A “simple spiral” or an “Archimedean spiral” is created by moving ‘away from’ and ‘around‘ a central point at a constant additive rate. If that sounds a bit foreign to you, don’t worry it’s nothing new. If you’ve coiled a hose or rope on a flat surface, you have experience working with Archimedean spirals.

(Photo by Paul Needham)

The most notable characteristic of the simple spiral above is that each coil (a full rotation around center) will always increase the spiral’s radius by the same amount (the width of the rope).

Now that you understand what a simple spiral is, I’d like to jump ahead a bit and show you the final state of our code: …
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The game called Chat Noir, which can be found in my Ten Fun Flash Games article, was driving Wilhelm crazy so I thought I’d show him that the “frickin cat” can indeed be boxed.

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