Woodpecker

WoodPecker (http://woodpeckerflash.wordpress.com/) is fun. It is a set of Flash Classes that lets you animate to sound. It gets really interesting when you have full flash scenes and characters that animate to a song as well as along a time line. By animating to a song I'm referring to having the image either scale vertically and proportionally according to the frequency of the beats of a song or multiply and decrease according to the frequency of the beats of a song. There are a few properties that allow you to access the beats, amplitude etc. I managed to make an animation where the main frequency display, after reaching a certain height on the stage, triggered another animation.

Robin

A few weeks ago, I experimented with Robin (http://robinflash.wordpress.com/), an open source flash multiuser system. It allows users to interact simultaneously over the internet within an application. It was a little difficult to get it working at first but when it was up and running it was great. I managed to get it so that each time a new user logged on to the application's website, a unique character would be added that only that specific user could use. I also like that I was able to experiment with having the users character's interact with each other (ie hittests between characters), or to have them interact with an object that is accessible to all of them. Coming from a graphic design point of view, I was only able to do so much with it but I think it's obvious that there is potential for amazing applications.