Hi Mike, When the Flash code on your machine contacts the server, I assume it would use a fairly straightforward communications format (XML over HTTP maybe?). If you install a program to monitor the communications, you might be able to figure out how to get at the data without using Flash. There are plenty of options for such monitoring: do a web search for HTTP sniffer, HTTP protocol analyzer or HTTP spy or something along those lines. It installs on your own computer and tells you all the communications that the Flash applet is making with the server. I don't know about the legality of "mining" the underlying web services and data with your own client (rather than the supplied Flash applet).
If you or your collaborator is currently based at a university, another possibility would be to recruit an undergraduate student to implement a similar Flash applet of your own. A simple "drawing recorder" without all the fancy extras and graphic design of the imagination3 site should actually be a fairly small project. You can probably find a student to create a similar web service for you in a few days for less than a couple hundred dollars. -Ben -----Original Message----- From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2008 4:45 To: [email protected] Subject: [agi] Request for Help Remember that mathematical test/ experiment you all hated - the one where you doodle on this site - http://www.imagination3.com and it records your actual stream of drawing in time as well as the finished product? Well, a reasonably eminent scientist liked it, and wants to set it up. But he's having problems contacting the site- they don't reply to emails & "there's no way of accessing the time and space coordinates of the drawings, unless there's a possibility to read them from the Flash animation." Can you suggest either a) a way round this or b) an alternative site/method to faithfully record the time and space coordinates of the drawings? Cheeky request perhaps, but I would be v. grateful for any help. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=91906145-b2bea4
