Motion Circular Wander Flash As3 Demo Norhtern Lights

Northern Lights Circular Wander Demo

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

This was a fun quickie. I’ve always wanted to try creating Northern Lights with Actionscript, and here was a good excuse. I’ve seen the real deal in Finland, and though my demo doesn’t act (or look) exactly like aurora borealis, it does use the Circular Wander Class I blogged about last week The code is pretty straight forward, the “trick” being that I take the y value of the “leader” (an instance of CircularWander), and cast that to the Z value of all the following particles. A little Blur, and voila. Then for lack of inspiration, I made it into a sound visualizer.