Vote for your Favorite Entries

[kirupa]

hey everyone,
Thanks to all of the judges, the field of entries has now been narrowed down to a more manageable size. Congrats to all of the finalists whose entries have made it this far.

Peddling for votes is not encouraged, so don't do it :P

Voting will end on Friday - February 10th.

Feb 10th Update:
Congratulations to everyone. The contest is now over! The winners are:

1. Interactive Tree (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206345) by freeskier89
2. Particle Clock (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=205677) by dbarbarian
3. Spiral Fractal (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=207004) by jerez_z

Thanks to all of the judges for having to pick great entries from a an initial pool of great entries.

Cheers!
Kirupa :bandit:

[Krilnon]

This competition had some very impressive results! Good luck everyone :) (Especially to the person I voted for ;) )

[JoshuaJonah]

Very nice entries guys. That was a great battle, we should have another one soon.(other than the 1kb game:pa:)

I promise i'll enter next time:sure: .

[dbarbarian]

Good luck to everyone =)

Thanks for adding the No Vote up there Kirupa.

[NiñoScript]

i wasnt even qualified :*(
well... i still have lots of time to practice :P

good luck ppl ;)

[mmubashar]

I LOVE THE ONE I VOTED FOR!!! And if it doesnt win, I will still love it! Its just too nice! =)

[pares101]

this competition just blows me away you guys have awesome imagination.

[SimplyArun]

All your entries have left me speechless.
Good luck to the one I voted for!

[McGiver]

Spiral fractal :love:


btw:
View Poll Results: SOTW? ????

[sed|thh]

can someone post a link to the swf's?
I can't remember all of them :beer:

[Pattt]

Everyone is so cool! :'(

[kirupa]

btw:
????
Oops - old habit. I just changed the title :P

[pom]

Spiral fractal :love:Ditto :) That entry is really top-notch.

[GreenLantern]

Nodedraw. Very cool.

:thumb:

[kirupa]

My two favorites were Circular Space Filling and liked Box Fitting. They both reminded me of a screensaver that runs many of the computers I see around school :P

[freeskier89]

:P I was wondering if you meant to say SOTW also. I figured it meant submission of the week, but the week part didn't really fit.

Thanks for the vote Kirupa! :kommie:

[Sammo]

Where'd my entries go :( I spent hours on 'em!


P.s. Go Icio and his rotating stars! :D

[nobody]

I went for the interactive tree. Twas a fun one.

[Seb Hughes]

Well Good Luck, I voted for my fav. I would also like to say thank you judges, that includes me. :D

[NiñoScript]

Box Fitting was my pick :)

[kenshin]

These are all so cool! And very educational. Learned a lot! Congrats everyone :goatee:

[~The Who~]

- All of 'em blew my mind, but I had to vote for treatkor's generating spirals. Very nice.:thumb:

[JoshuaJonah]

I was especially fond of the particle clock

[fabiopb]

where can we see them all before we vote, there are a few i still havent seen?? {silly question, i know} :krazy:

[Smily]

Can we vote for ourselves? :D

[freeskier89]

Can we vote for ourselves? :D Not to be selfish, but I was wondering the exact same thing. :P

ps: Thanks for your vote xxvii! :hugegrin:

[EZEkiel]

wow they are really neat!! great job to everyone who submitted an entry!! and good luck!!

:ninja:EZEkiel:ninja:

[Infinitation]

Nicely Done and wonderful coding. Good Job to all!!

[mlk]

All the entries were astounding ! The node drawing thingy got me pondering over what it was for a long time, and got my vote.

The spiral fractal code comes really really close behind !

[darkplanets]

Nodedraw was amazing, got my vote.

[Sammo]

Well Good Luck, I voted for my fav. I would also like to say thank you judges, that includes me. :D
No prizes for guessing who that was (going by your bias when the entries were still being uploaded) :ponder:

[.soulty]

:!: wow.. these are all amazing!.

I would of posted in the users threads but i would have to post in them all since each one of the entries are top notch.. great work everyone and good luck!

[esnetni]

that interactive tree is awesome.

[Jeff Wheeler]

Very hard decision. My vote went to Circular Space Filling, because every-time I suggested a change, he did it. :P

[J]

every entry is so gud.
my personal fav are Flowerchain and Spiral Fractal.
wish u all the best :)

[Soul814]

i liked alot of them =), its too hard to choose lol, how do people come up w/ these effects =) lol

[hybrid101]

it was close, but i voted for the particle clock, design and functionality wise.
G00d Job to everybody!:beer:

[pyrophone]

The clock is my favorite - hard to choose, though. Great job all.

[Seb Hughes]

Very hard decision. My vote went to Circular Space Filling, because every-time I suggested a change, he did it. :P
:lol:, you got a long way off to beign god ahhaah

[jerez_z]

soo many wasted votes :diss:

[dbarbarian]

I don't know if I would call them wasted. The people who selected that are most likely going to be people with entries that are being voted on (because if they actually voted it would obviously be biased) or people who don't really care about the actual entries and just want to see the results. The No Vote is especially beneficial to the later situation, because it discourages people from randomly voting just to see the results without actually going through the entries.
In conclusion, I don't see those votes as being wasted, but rather channeled to where they won't be biased or random, allowing a fairer (more fair?) voting process.

That's just my opinion though.

[freeskier89]

I don't know if I would call them wasted. The people who selected that are most likely going to be people with entries that are being voted on (because if they actually voted it would obviously be biased) or people who don't really care about the actual entries and just want to see the results. The later situation is prevented with the No Vote, because it discourages people from randomly voting just to see the results.
In conclusion, I don't see those votes as being wasted, but rather channeled to where they won't be biased or random, allowing a fairer (more fair?) voting process.

That's just my opinion though. Semi-Seconded :P The other half of the seconded opinion goes to jeremy's opinion. That is a really odd saying I am neutral :P

It is really good that we don't have random votes, but still it would be good if everyone could glance over the entries enough to vote for the best. Or they could do the alternative of logging out to see the results :P

Woot! 500 Posts finally, not that it really matters.

[rmo518]

They're all great. Interactive Tree stood out to me thought. And then on a second look I realize it was one of your entries, freeskier. Figured we might as well stick togther at this point.

[kdd]

i voted for flowerchain. :D kirupa, is there any way the results could be displayed in a sorted order after one has voted?

[Sim085]

I have been away from here for quite some time. However I have seen this ... and I just remeber how great it was to develop in flash ...

Great Job to everyone ... they are really all fantastic :)

regards,
sim085

[blitz.]

cmon u tree hugger

[J]

i think the results should not be shown before the voting is over.
psychologically, people tend to vote the highest ranker which i feel is unfair :(
i too was tempted to vote the one which got highest vote :|

[Sammo]

i think the results should not be shown before the voting is over.
psychologically, people tend to vote the highest ranker which i feel is unfair :(
i too was tempted to vote the one which got highest vote :|
You can't see the results so far until you have infact voted.

[J]

You can't see the results so far until you have infact voted.

But can see the results if you are not logged in

[treatkor]

i luv them all! so hard to pick just one. after much chin scratching, tooth-nashing and runningly around wildly between all of McGiver's entries, icio's stars, freeskier89's circle fitting, and well really all of them and even lots of entries that didn't make it to the poll... i had to give my vote to jerez_z's spiral fractal entry :) this kind of actionscript contest should happen again and again. it's so nice to look at interesting code in delicious bite sized pieces.

-now if someone will just code a gallery to display these in 25 lines :)

[ElectricGrandpa]

I didn't vote for any because they're all good... It's pretty impossible to pick between different effects... It's not like any are better or worse, they're all just different from each other.

[icio]

I still don't understand why it's ok to use
var bmp:flash.display.BitmapData = new flash.display.BitmapData(...);
but not
import flash.display.BitmapData;
var bmp:BitmapData = new BitmapData(...);

Hell, if either, it should be the second one that is allowed because it's taking up more lines whilst giving a massive advantage over < Flash 8 users, where-as the first has no disadvantage, puting them at an even greater advantage to < Flash 8 users.

Also, by using `flash.display.BitmapData`, flash will automatically import the class, so it's exactly the same thing anyway, excluding the disadvantage in using the import statement.

wtf at that rule.

I really liked the shark entry, McGiver (the Mullet is really cool too :lol: ) I also really like your other entry too, McGiver, flowerchain. :thumb:

[Jeff Wheeler]

Agreed. :thumb:

[mmubashar]

FLOWERCHAIN! MY FAV!! :pac:
Well, the winner is...

(None - just show me the results!)

for getting the most votes. :lol:
I personally think that there shouldnt be the (None - just show me the results!) vote. As for the competitors, they can vote for themselves. No harm. Everyone thinks he had done a good job. At least the current "winner" here will have his vote given to someone else's submission. That's why its called a poll..lol

[kdd]

no vote thing is useful to people who just want to look at the current winning entry, and i think it's more like a tradition now. :)

btw, i still need an answer to this: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1771575&postcount=44

[J]

and i need anwser for this :
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1771669&postcount=47

[kdd]

yeah, i logged out and found that out. but i think you were the only person too tempted to do that. :P but yes, you're right, the results shouldn't be displayed OR the admin/mod/poll creater should be given a choice whether a guest could see the results or not...

[kirupa]

kdd - I don't know how to do that, but when I figure it out, I'll try to implement it that way.

icio - it would be more unfair to allow only Flash 8 users to use an import statement while disallowing users of other versions from using them. If it so happens that your version of Flash has access to more default features than another version of Flash, then you should be able to take advantage of those features.

Regarding guests seeing the poll results without even voting, there is no setting to avoid that. If guests were allowed to vote, they can vote multiple times by simply clearing their cookies and refreshing the page. Jaya, the solution to this would answer your question also.

:cowboy:

[ElectricGrandpa]

Hell, if either, it should be the second one that is allowed because it's taking up more lines whilst giving a massive advantage over < Flash 8 users, where-as the first has no disadvantage, puting them at an even greater advantage to < Flash 8 users.

It's only logical that people with a newer version would have a bit of an advantage. People who are using newer computers have an advantage too, because they can test their stuff faster. To disallow the features of Flash 8 is basically to ignore all of the goodness that it provides. When I bought studio 8, I didn't buy it so I could do all the same old stuff from mx 2004.

[kdd]

kdd - I don't know how to do that, but when I figure it out, I'll try to implement it that way.

thanks. :) it's just that it is easier to see.

[icio]

icio - it would be more unfair to allow only Flash 8 users to use an import statement while disallowing users of other versions from using them. If it so happens that your version of Flash has access to more default features than another version of Flash, then you should be able to take advantage of those features.

That's exactly what I'm saying. You have allowed people to use the first sample of code that I gave. You said people weren't allowed to import BitmapData classes, etc.

And by "Accessing" these features, flash automatically imports so you have the same advantage that was trying to be avoided when you banned `import` statements. My point is that you can still use the class, and in less lines. Surely you should be against this too ?

[hybrid101]

when does the voting period end?

[kirupa]

icio - the only surefire way of disallowing 3rd party class files would be to forbid the use of import statements. Also, why spend two lines to do something that you could accomplish in one line ;)

[kirupa]

Congratulations to everyone. The contest is now over! The winners are:

1. Interactive Tree (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206345) by freeskier89
2. Particle Clock (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=205677) by dbarbarian
3. Spiral Fractal (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=207004) by jerez_z

Thanks to all of the judges for having to pick great entries from a an initial pool of great entries.

Cheers!
Kirupa =)

[kdd]

congrats to the winners and all. and thanks kirupa. :)

[Smily]

Congrats winners! More contests! :)

[icio]

icio - the only surefire way of disallowing 3rd party class files would be to forbid the use of import statements. Also, why spend two lines to do something that you could accomplish in one line ;)
I thought `import` statements were disallowed. And that's not the only way, as is demonstrated in my post - which was my point.

nm.

[Jeff Wheeler]

Congratulations, fellas. Great job!

[icio]

Oh! And congraturlations guys. There was a lot of great and insiprational work done by a lot of people :thumb:

[Seb Hughes]

Well done guys :D

[dbarbarian]

Wow, second place, thanks! :)

Congrats to everyone. :thumb2:

[freeskier89]

Thanks a ton to all of you voters that voted for me :hugegrin:

I have got to say that I was very impressed with all of the entries up on that list, and even the ones not on it. :hugegrin:

Congratulations dbarb and jeremy! :thumb:

[TheCanadian]

Congratulations to everyone who entered (especially the winners) :toad:

[Pasquale]

congrats freeskier !!

[Krilnon]

Oh, it looks like my vote went to the winner (I was skiing when the poll closed). Great job! :beam:

[mmubashar]

Congrats guys! Though my fav one didnt win. But still, congrats ^.^.v,,

[x_polar]

Amazingly original.