degrafa

If you were able to make it to 360|Flex Atlanta, swing by the EffectiveUI booth and grab a “limited edition” Degrafa shirt. It seems there’s been a lot of swag floating around at the conference, but the Degrafa shirts are a limited run of 200. Pick one up while you can and be sure to wear it to the Degrafa session on Wednesday. A big thanks to EffectiveUI and 360Conferences for sponsoring the shirts!

Congratulations to Erno Aapa for winning the Degrafa Derby with his Process Map entry. Erno walks away with a copy of Flex Builder 3, his choice of the Adobe CS3 Web or Design Premium, and a bedazzled 360|Flex Atlanta shirt. Congratulations Erno!

To view the other entries, visit http://showcase.degrafa.com and stay tuned for more opportunities to show of some Degrafa skills.

Wow, does time fly. The deadline for Degrafa Derby submissions is rapidly approaching with one week left on the board. We’ve seen a mix of uses of Degrafa and even more talks of ideas for submissions, so keep it going.

We know some people are waiting until the last minute to submit, which is fine. The submission cut off is February 22nd and since we’re scattered across the globe, you don’t have to worry about adhering to a particular time zone.

We’ll take late submissions, but we can’t guarantee it’ll get into judging. The more time we have to spend with a submission the better, and since a majority of the “judges” will be heading off to 360|Flex, we have a window of time to get all the judging in. Also, submissions from any country are accepted.

Send your Degrafa Derby submission to derby [at] degrafa [dot] com with:

• Your Submission: source files or a URL
• Title of Submission
• Name(s) of Developers
• Description
• Any unique challenges, approaches, etc.
• Contact Email
• Proof that submission uses Degrafa. We basically need to know you used Degrafa. This can be source files, a secret link to a submission with view source enabled, or an “I swear it’s Degrafa” statement.

Any questions, email derby [at] degrafa [dot] com.

The other day I came across Chad Udell’s post about his KulerCreator and it got me thinking. Degrafa could easily be used to create random generated art, especially since so many of the Degrafa object properties are bindable. I grabbed Tweener (which I had never used before) and applied it to a few different shapes and their properties.

I used two circles and set tweens on their size dimensions, as well as some of the gradient fill properties, which creates some interesting effects. There’s a polygon in there and I set tweens to each one of it’s four points. Finally, I threw a bird shape in there drawn with SVG path data. It took no time at all to put this together and the results are interesting. Most importantly, it was easy and was done using MXML markup.

Things could get really interesting with some physics, random colors, filters, easing, etc.

See the results