Flash Math Creativity

by David Hirmes, J.D. Hooge, Ken Jokol

"Flash Math Creativity is a book of experiments and iterations that represent pure generative design. It's a book for designers who code, and coders who design, and it's a book for people who do neither. And with ActionScript 2.0, Macromedia has yet again upped the standard for creating immersive digital experiences. With Flash, the possibilities for artistic expression are limited only by your imagination." Inside you'll find everything from the simplest rotating square to a full multifunction graph plotter, all programmed in ActionScript 2.0. Ever noticed how the shape of a fern repeats itself again and again in each tiny frond? Almost as though someone took a basic piece of code and made a few iterations. And the results is something unexpectedly simple, but, inexplicably beautiful. In Flash Math Creativity, you'll explore the harmony of nature and math to produce some truly unique design experiments.

Paperback

First published December 16, 2004

Reviews

[Yates Buckley]

Great text from the deep past of actionscript flash.

Looking at this years later, one realises how fragile the particular technical format is while the visual ideas remain relevant.