Hi all, Saw project K++ announced on Slashdot today go to http://www.robertpeake.com/CannedKandinsky/ a kandinsky emulator doc at http://www.robertpeake.com/CannedKandinsky/doc/
it uses ming http://ming.sourceforge.net/ and php http://www.php.net/ I'd not used ming before so I downloaded the samples and relevant php files and had a little offline play about with it. It's pretty straightforward..only about 2 hours of messying about to understand what's going on, configure it and get my first program written with it (well the "Hello World" stage). Anyway if I do anything interesting with it I'll send a URL. If you want a layman's explanation of the above basically ming lets you write php programs to generate swf files (flash movies). So if you have ming and php on your server you can make flash movies on the fly...very cool it seems. Well thought you'd want to know...hopefully I'll find some time over the next few weeks to play with it. I think there're a lot of applications for this tech esp. visual poetry...normally it takes ages to create flash animations so this thing should be a real time saver whilst allowing great degree of randomisation in creating content. cheers, Sol.
