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Anyway, here’s a quick lowdown of the second day of Macromedia MAX 2005 Singapore<\/a>. The speakers today were Jeremy Clark, Macromedia Flash Product Manager, Jared Tarbell of Levitated<\/a> and Gallery of Computation<\/a>, Mario Klingemann<\/a> and Yugo Nakamura<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mr. Tarbell’s presentation on simulating organic behaviours using simple recursive object coding was very interesting. He programs on-screen objects to move according to preset rules with an inherent random factor and creates very artistic patterns with them. One of my favourite examples is the Lorenz Attractor<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nakamura-san’s presentation is my personal favourite. The websites he designed are just on a completely different level from most Flash sites I’ve seen. Just take a look at some of his work, like Amaztype<\/a>, Fotologue<\/a> and Amana<\/a>, and you’ll see what I mean. The new Japanese Xbox360 promotional site, Jump-in<\/a>, was also created by him.<\/p>\n The rest of the presentations were meh.<\/p>\n I did manage to speak to Marcos Weskamp<\/a> (my favourite speaker from yesterday) and ask him about studying in Tokyo. Apparently he choose Japan only because of a scholarship offered by the Japanese embassy. He went there without speaking a word of Japanese and took one year of preparation before actually attending lectures at university, where he was the only foreigner. Also, he only took JLPT up to level 2.<\/p>\n Trust me to ask about such things in the middle of a Macromedia conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finally, the longest week I’ve ever gone through is over. Three days of camping plus two days of talks and one night of Japanese lesson. \u00e3\u201a\u201a\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00e3\u0192\u20ac\u00e3\u0192\u00a1\u00e3\u0081\u00a0\u00e3\u20ac\u201a\u00ef\u00bc\u00bf|\u00ef\u00bf\u00a3|O Anyway, here’s a quick lowdown of the second day of Macromedia MAX 2005 Singapore. … Continue reading