I’m experimenting a bit with flocking. Haven’t gotten as far a moving stuff in any interesting way yet, but it’s fun enough to fool around with maths I haven’t looked at for decades. In the sample below you can see how the vectors of attraction pull the birds (yeah right!) to the common center, while [...]

One of those things… The event ADDED_TO_STAGE, dispatched by any DisplayObject when it gets added to the stage (duh) as opposed to added to a parent, wasn’t available in Flash player 9 before 9.0.28. That basically means we can’t really trust it will be available until statistics prove that any and all minor releases prior [...]