Metal Hurlant

I’ve just pushed version 1.1 of the as3 crypto library out.
New stuff (from the release notes):
- secret key: DES, 3DES, BlowFish
- mode: CTR, SimpleIV
- demo UI: Added unit tests
- added toString() to each algorithm
- added dispose() to each algorithm. dispose() attempts to clear keys and states from the memory, but it is not guaranteed to (…)

ActionScript 3 has several new features such as ByteArray and uint, that make number crunching on the web less slow than you’re used to.
So it seemed like having a crypto library for as3 would make a lot of sense.
For as2, there was Meychi’s ASCrypt library, and while it would be easy to port them (…)

My little fractal viewer has been updated. We now have pretty colors, julia support, smoother zooming, back and forward support (in firefox), and bookmark-able links.
For example, you can now go directly in a pink Julia fractal
Alternatively, you can check out the weird fractal in the thumbnail. It’s not quite mandelbrot, and not quite julia, and (…)

I need to pick up actionscript 3.0 quickly, so I figured I’d write a few small test programs for it.
When I was young, I’d waste hours waiting for FractInt to put together some really pretty images. I never really wrote my own little fractal programs, for whatever reason.
This seemed like a good opportunity to mix (…)