Links: Mathematical themes with Actionscript
August 26th, 2007 . by polyGeekOne of my hobbies is playing around with mathematical algorithms in Actionscript. Here are a few sites I have found useful.
Code Optimization
AS3 Speed tests
This is a community maintained page of speed optimization techniques for use with ActionScript3.
AS3: Rethink your old assumptions
A bit on code optimization using constants and variables.
Fast and accurate sine/cosine approximation
More code optimization to do sine/cosine operations without using the Math class.
Bitwise gems - fast integer math
Using bitwise operations to speed up calculations.
Actionscript
Using molecular mechanics in Flash
Cool motions based on equations of attraction and repulsion.
Making Bitmap Art with Flash CS3 and WikiPedia
Art from equations.
Sites
Wolfram’s MathWorld
The web’s most extensive math resource.
Superfractals
The site resource for the book Superfractals by Professor Michael F. Barnsley
Good Math / Bad Math
Finding the fun in good math. Squashing bad math and the fools who promote it is their tagline. I just hope he never writes about me.
Articles
Iterated Function Systems and Attractors
Covers the mathematical iteration I used here.













Nice hobby - it’s pretty much my entire businsess :)
regards,
- jim
@Jim, Thanks for the post. Now I have another blog - your’s - added to my RSS.
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