Bored. Decided to revamp the header on smifterbifter.com (the thing at the top of this page). I have been taking pictures of all sorts of things over the years and I wanted to display some of those and incorporate some (albeit limited) interactivity. What I have come up with is a bit of a work-in-progress, but I'm quite pleased nonetheless.
It's all glued together using Flash. First off, created the smifterbifter.com logo using mouseover effects and a bit of actionscript. More work to be done here to make it do stuff without requiring interaction with the mouse... another day.
The images were all cropped and normalised in Fireworks. To make them fit in with the site, I desaturated each image, then applied a blueish tint. These images were then stung together with another bit of actionscript to crossfade from image to image at random. The crossfade is very efficient (not my code I'm afraid - see whatdoiknow for the source) and the entire swf file weighs in at only 3k. This is only possible as the images are loaded dynamically on demand.
Anyway. That's all really. As I said: A bit bored today.
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