INFO 424 Week 7

WEEK 7 – take home exam (emulate 2 designs)

WEEK 8 – Flash exam

WEEK 9 – take home exam (find your own designs to emulate)

WEEK 10 – Flash exam

Flash Quiz #2

Flash Quiz #2

REVIEW

More practice with building XML files and retrieving data from them

How to loop through an XML file

for each (var myXMLbit:XML in myXML.firstElement){

How to change the display order

Direct select tool

YOUR DRAWINGS

PREVIEW

Scene animation

http://www.nicolasrapp.com/pharmawater_update/

MovieClip animations

morphing animations

frame-by-frame animations

http://www.nicolasrapp.com/pharmawater_update/

Tweens in AS

var myTweenx:Tween = new Tween(purpleCircle_mc, "x", Back.easeOut, 0, 300, 3, true);var myTweeny:Tween = new Tween(purpleCircle_mc, "y", Back.easeOut, 0, 300, 3, true);var myTweenHeight:Tween = new Tween(purpleCircle_mc, "height", Back.easeOut, 5, 100, 3, true);var myTweenWidth:Tween = new Tween(purpleCircle_mc, "width", Back.easeOut, 5, 100, 3, true);

Change x positionChange y positionChange heightChange width

creating an arrayvar myArray:Array = new Array();

adding to an arraymyArray.push(<name of object/item to be added>);

finding out the size of an arraymyArray.length

looping through an arrayfor each (var mySprite:Sprite in myArray){}

retrieving a value from an arraymyArray[0];

Arrays in AS

More Visual Design Concepts

BalanceWhite SpaceEye Movement

Visual potentialEncodingUses of textUses of colorLayeringVisual hierarchyUnity & VarietyAssociating text with visual elementColor blindnessLegibilityContext – comparable, other information

Visualization Concepts

Visual potential & encoding & context

How the US compares to other nations in terms of health care costs & life expectancy

Visual PotentialEncodingUses of textUses of colorLayeringVisual hierarchyUnity & VarietyAssociating text with visual elementColor blindnessLegibilityContext – comparable, other information

http://blogs.ngm.com/.a/6a00e00982269188330120a7a46406970b-popup

Visual potential & encoding & context

How discount airlines reduce costs relative to standard airlines

Visual PotentialEncodingUses of textUses of colorLayeringVisual hierarchyUnity & VarietyAssociating text with visual elementColor blindnessLegibilityContext – comparable, other information

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=110997398