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May 5, 2009 
Yesterday night I wanted to have some “no-purpose coding session” and thought it was a nice idea to record the session and do a speedcoding video. The original video has been collapsed from 45 minutes to 3 minutes circa.
The main concept is once again based on perlinNoise which (I am sure you already guessed) is something I do like very much. So please start call me “The PerlinNoise Guy” or “Perlinator”. 
So this is my first speedcoding video (be sure to look at it in high quality):
Here’s the interactive demo:
Click to launch. Move mouse (x position) to change smoothness (my favourite values are around 100)
The code consist on a Branch.as class file (click to download) and some timeline code to assemble the demo:
import com.oaxoa.fx.Branch;
const w:uint=stage.stageWidth;
const h:uint=stage.stageHeight;
var ct:ColorTransform=new ColorTransform(1,1,1,1,1,1,1);
var renderView:BitmapData=new BitmapData(w, h, true);
var bmp:Bitmap=new Bitmap(renderView);
addChild(bmp);
var tf:TextFormat=new TextFormat("_sans", 16, 0, true);
var label:TextField=new TextField();
label.width=400;
label.defaultTextFormat=tf;
addChild(label);
var timer:Timer=new Timer(10);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, ontimer);
timer.start();
function ontimer(event:TimerEvent):void {
addNew();
}
function addNew():void {
label.text="Smoothness: "+String(mouseX-w/2);
var tt:Branch=new Branch(mouseX-w/2);
tt.x=stage.stageWidth/2;
tt.y=stage.stageHeight/2;
tt.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, oncomplete);
addChild(tt);
renderView.colorTransform(renderView.rect, ct);
}
function oncomplete(event:Event):void {
var t:Branch=event.currentTarget as Branch;
var matrix:Matrix=new Matrix();
matrix.translate(t.x, t.y);
renderView.draw(t, matrix);
removeChild(t);
t.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, oncomplete);
t=null;
}
I didn’t forget about the lightning class part 3 that I will publish soon 
As usual if you liked this drop a line in the comments.
Ciao
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