Flex is for RIA's and helps you with layouts and common controls and doesn't really provide anything useful for generating art with either vectors or drawing to a sprite. With the framework itself bulking up the size of your swf and consuming additional resources, it's not really a good thing.
The generative art I typically use straight ActionScript with a library of choice -- Hype (http://www.hypeframework.org/) being particularly awesome for that kinda thing. There's nothing stopping you from using Flex / Flash Builder as your editor though. Just create an "ActionScript" or "Flash Professional" project. If you're just looking for ActionScript generative art, I'm fairly partial to http://levitated.net/ On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Jim Andrews <j...@vispo.com> wrote: > Can anyone point out to me any interesting art projects that are Flex > projects? Particularly what I'm looking for are simple projects that combine > some of the benefits of Flex with the benefits of Flash concerning > generative visual art. > > It's looking too much like a no fun zone at the mo. Any spice out there? > Any fun? Is it all corporate solutions? > > ja? > http://vispo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
