Rotated Oval Tutorial
Making the transition from drawing circles to drawing ovals is pretty simple but when you need to go from drawing ovals to drawing rotated ovals, you might run into a few problems. This article...
View ArticleElegant Ellipses
While researching how to draw rotated ovals I learned some interesting facts about ellipses and thought I’d share them with you: Ellipse Definition: There are many ways to say it, but essentially an...
View ArticleAnimated Arc Drawing
A recent comment on my Oval Drawing Tutorial asks how to “give the appearance that an oval is being drawn slowly”. Hmmm… this sounds like a job for my handy Arc Drawing Function. Slowly drawing (or...
View ArticleFlash Scripted Conic Angle Gradient
One of the quirkier aspects of Flash is its lack of a ‘conic’ gradient fill. The conic gradient has been a mainstay of drawing apps like CorelDraw and Photoshop (where it’s called an “Angle Gradient”)...
View ArticleDrawing a Closed Arc Shape
This tutorial provides the ActionScript needed to draw a “Closed Arc” which is my way of describing the solid shape created by connecting a pair of concentric arcs with 2 straight lines. Here’s an...
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