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Darkfuzz
November 15th, 2005, 12:53 AM
My bulb in my lava lamp burnt out. Out of spite, I created this. Enjoy!

Coming in version 2: pick your color


"I love lamp"
-Darkfuzz :beer:
TheCanadian
November 15th, 2005, 12:59 AM
Is that done with AS or timeline animations?
icio
November 15th, 2005, 06:01 AM
"I love Carpet... I love desk."
Timeline?
Pasquale
November 15th, 2005, 06:08 AM
looks tweened (refresh) cause it plays the same path
hybrid101
November 15th, 2005, 06:28 AM
it looks pretty cool, i'll wait for the second version...I want a red lava lamp!
TheMaxExp
November 15th, 2005, 06:46 AM
DM what are you talking about?
B3NKobe
November 15th, 2005, 07:07 AM
Thats awsome :thumb:
Darkfuzz
November 15th, 2005, 08:24 AM
its ALLLLLLL AS! :thumb: keep watching, youll see something you havent seen ever before, and then something youll never see again, because its as random as... uh... Math.random(). :P

-Darkfuzz
hybrid101
November 15th, 2005, 08:45 AM
what is it?
B3NKobe
November 15th, 2005, 08:47 AM
what is it?
Its a lava lamp :puzzled:
BoonDock
November 15th, 2005, 09:38 AM
Hey that's pretty darn good. Kudos!
Seb Hughes
November 15th, 2005, 10:39 AM
Nice :love: but the joining of a small bubble with a big one isnt that realistic
b3mus3d
November 15th, 2005, 11:08 AM
I liked it, but when the bubbles collide they don't appear to join together? I'm not sure if that's too much to ask, I don't use flash (yet), but it'd be cool :-D
icio
November 15th, 2005, 11:49 AM
Cool :)

b3mus3d, they do join.
G
November 15th, 2005, 11:58 AM
hmmmm......not sure what to say other than I can think of better things that AS is for :)
Seb Hughes
November 15th, 2005, 01:56 PM
I first it took a while to see the first bubble and didnt think it was working keep it up, casnt waizt tooo see version 2 :D
BadMagick
November 15th, 2005, 02:59 PM
If you could make the lava bubbles bounce off each other ... that'd be insane.

Call me a perfectionist, but I'd like to see some illuminance too! ;)
Maybe an on/off wheel you can click ... perhaps let someone choose the colors maybe?

I'm just joshin' ya - it looks cool. I've got my shovel; I dig it.
Darkfuzz
November 15th, 2005, 03:14 PM
Badmagik: What exactly do you mean by illuminance?
I like the idea of making an on/off switch, but when you turn it off, what would you see? I kinda made the bubbles so that they look illuminated from the bottom, just like real lava bubbles. Are you talking a different kind of illuminance?

Also, the colors thing is a given. I worked on this for about 3 hours yesterday :|, and it might be another day before I get all that new stuff added.

As for making the bubbles bounce off each other, do you mean make it so they don't completely overlap? I currently have it so that half of the bubbles are mergable, and the other half aren't, so they just float by and it isnt one big merge-fest. Plus having bubbles overlap gives it some depth, I think. What do the rest o' yalls think?

Anyway, I appreciate the comments and critiques! Keep it coming!

-Darkfuzz
"Free virtual decorations for all!"
BadMagick
November 16th, 2005, 01:07 PM
Well I know my lava lamp has a yellow highlighter type fluid inside of it, and when it's on, the whole lamp glows that flourecent color.
I've got this lamp, but in yellow - http://www.tyborg.com/media/lavalamp.jpg

You musn't spend as much time staring at lava lamps as I do, cause when you get the bubbles going, they don't always merge - sometimes they'll, quite viciously at times, ricochet off one another. Kinda like this - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6261893790936019673&q=lava+lamp

I'm just joshin' ya - I know that stuff would be rediculously hard to do. It's pretty cool the way it is.

p.s. Google is fantastic!
FlashFish
November 16th, 2005, 01:59 PM
Looking good! That's impressive as (for me anyway) I did something eerily similar a couple of years back. I had to make summat random, I chose a lava lamp. I wanted to do it all as but I gave in and tweened it. It randomly chooses colours and blobs though. Take a look... http://www.jamescorcoran.net/projects/gotoandplay/lavacodecolour.swf
(refresh to change it. It's best in purple)
Darkfuzz
November 16th, 2005, 09:52 PM
Wow. That is eerily similar.

Anywayz, after watching that video (google video?! what will they think of next!?) I realize that it will take a lot more coding and stuff to get mine to look like a real lava lamp, but when you consider the stretching and oozing and all of that... is it even possible?

I think you can change the shape of vector objects using AS...cant you? or can you only re-draw it with different proportions?

Perhaps I should move this to the open-source/experimental section.

Help anyone?