ActionScript Graphing Cookbook

by Dominic Gélineau Peter Backx

Learn how to create appealing and interactive visual presentations of your data in ActionScript Overview In Detail "A picture is worth a thousand words" has never been more true than when representing large sets of data. Bar charts, heat maps, cartograms, and many more have become important tools in applications and presentations to quickly give insight into complicated issues. The "ActionScript Graphing Cookbook" shows you how to add your own charts to any ActionScript program. The recipes give step-by-step instructions on how to process the input data, how to create various types of charts and how to make them interactive for even more user engagement. Starting with basic ActionScript knowledge, you will learn how to develop many different types of charts. First learn how to import your data, from Excel, web services and more. Next process the data and make it ready for graphical display. Pick one of the many graph options available as the book guides you through ActionScript’s drawing functions. And when you’re ready for it, branch out into 3D display. The recipes in the "ActionScript Graphing Cookbook" will gradually introduce you into the world of visualization. What you will learn from this book Approach Step-by-step instructions guide you from your very first graphical program to highly complex 3D presentations. Although a few recipes explain charts in Flex, this book is firmly focussed on using ActionScript code and data to draw graphs. Who this book is written for The "ActionScript Graphing Cookbook" is aimed at any ActionScript developer who wants to add data visualization to their skill set. The reader should be familiar with ActionScript basics, but no deep knowledge of any graphical functions is required.

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2012

Reviews

[Igor · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has all that you need for creating math graphs. The concept of the book is learning by example if you learn this way than this is book for you. Every problem is firstly explained and then the solution for the problem is presented with code. There are some more useful information's after that.

This book does not concentrate on explaining how sprites, movieclips and animation can be drawn with ActionScript it is mainly for graphs that are used in different fields statistics, mathematics and other similar fields. So if you need that than this is book for you.

You can find this book here:
http://www.packtpub.com/actionscript-...

[Bruce Lane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very nice book which covers everything you need to know about data visualization in actionscript:
From the basics of line, circle, area drawing to 3D graphics, very clear and step by step recipes to spice up your presentations.

Lots of useful information, starting from basic polygon drawing to advanced 3D graphics, including some Flex SDK component examples, and the way to create the graphics from scratch for better control.

Manipulate data from arrays, array collections, etc, coming from various sources.

Add some visuals effects using tween libraries for stunning presentations.

More details on http://www.packtpub.com/actionscript-... .