sakri rosenstrom blog

Right, as an attempt to imprint my name into the retinas and craniums of all who made the mistake of attending my multi-mania presentation, I had a “text effect which reacted to sound” covering the moviescreen… (see a piece of it here). My name, accompanied by my very own pirate smileys, bouncing to the wicked sounds of dj Zinc’s “super sharp shooter”.

I later on explained how I used the “split text field” effect (see text effect explorers, split text effect explorer), to react to the wonderful AS3 flash.media.SoundMixer.computeSpectrum() functionality. All the magic happens in the “reactToSound” method (just view source). The code loops one of the returned channels, grabs a readFloat() from the spectrum at an interval defined by the number of letters in my effect, divided by the available bytes (256). I then use this value to “y position” each letter and a few “followers”…

View the lobotomizing und brainwashing text effect!

click here for source goodness, or right click on the .swf then “view source”

The reflection was more or less copied from : Ben Stuckis reflection , I also used a “Easy Button” from the original AS3 samples written by the mighty Senocular, not his greatest contribution to the world of flash , but saved me a few seconds, and, gave me a good reason to give a shoutout to the great man I used audacity open source sound editor (the gimp of sound editors) to create the “loops” (lol). If nothing else, I know I have no future in the world of music

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