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Intro

Intro to this Playground

Check some of my creations both finished and unfinished, as well as some other projects I am involved in.


Click the images above to have a quick preview and the big image to go to the site itself or demo.

Psyche menu

Psyche menu

2 dimensional menu

(X)HTML / Flash / AS2 / javascript

Tired of 1 dimensional menus ? Me too. So, I tried to use 2 dimensions in a hierarchical menu. Customizeable by (x)(h)tml and SEO friendly.

Check it out on my chaotic personal web site.

Features:
  • Customizable (via (X)HTML)
  • SEO-enabled
  • Dynamic menu

Flash & SEO

Flash SEO

SEO is possible in Flash!

(X)HTML / Flash / AS2 or AS3 / SEO

A lot of people will disagree and say this is impossible, but good SEO is possible in Flash without double or redundant copying of content.
I have found a way to do this, and it is integrated in this site too.

Features:
  • SEO-enabled Flash
  • Jump to a page inside Flash movie
  • Searchengine indexes inside Flash pages
  • External content loading
  • All content as well in Flash as in html, though only Flash visible for visitors

Meditation cues

Meditation cues

Meditation help

(X)HTML / Flash / AS2

A very simple tool with minimal visuals, that can guide you through your meditation.
It times the different phases of the meditation you chose out of the available selection. A bell rings to announce a new phase. You can choose to have a voice guiding you through (for the beginner) or only having the bell sound. In addition it is even possible to add your own meditation.

Features:
  • Customizable via external loading of HTML
  • Audio(streaming)

Name artwork trials

Name artwork

Demonstrating some styles on an artist name.

Flash



The purpose was to find a suitable design for displaying a customer's artist name.

Eye of the Tiger

Eye of the Tiger

World of Warcraft guild site

CMS (Joomla) / CSS

Via the well know Joomla CMS (Content Management System), I very quickly and cheaply set up a site for a guild in the online game World of Warcraft.

Features:
  • CMS (Content management): Joomla // anyone may add searchable content, articles, contacts and links
  • Selfmade template (style)
  • Searchengine indexes inside Flash pages
  • Add-ons / CMS-features:
  •  User / article-rating
  •  Polls
  •  News / Syndicates / RSS / Atom
  •  Forum
  •  Registered users / Login

phpFeatureCompare

phpFeatureCompare

Open source library for comparing stuff

php / javascript / CSS

I am making an open source library or functions to facilitate comparing objects in tables. Read more about it on this Open Source site.

Features:
  • Object, compare, feature-weight, .. database
  • Javascript ordering (without refreshing the page)
  • Total graphics
  • Hoover-tooltips
  • More to come..

Google Earth Gent Overlay

phpFeatureCompare

Overlay for Google Earth

XML / php / cartographic coordinates



Dynamically generated overlay for Google Earth of the City of Ghent. It is a much more higher resolution than the default Google Earth satellite images.

Thanks to the City of Ghent for providing the arial photos.

Color Matrices

color matrix

Fooling around with colors

Flash / AS2



Some fooling around with colors.
This is a start of creating a user interface for manipulating the colors of an image in all possible ways.

Have a look, this may be fun!

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Documentary Presentation

Flash / AS2 / Science / XML

I have always been fascinated by electromagnetic waves. Especially in the period that I studied for my Masters in Science.

The Flash movie displays the full EM spectrum and divides it in the main categories with some explanations, special frequencies, a wavelength-frequency conversion tool, ...
It features some automised view of reflection, attenuation etc. The site uses several features like some other projects above.

The new version allows you to choose your own frequencies, attenuations and others to view by providing your own XML-files The real cool thing about it is that you can customize everything.

Features:
  • Customizable via external loading of XML
  • Zoom
  • Some educational material
  • Customizable allocation tables, application tables (existing: Europe ECA, "Some well known" ITU)
  • Customizable diagrams or graphs such as attenuations, reflections, black bodies, .. (existing: atmospheric attenuation, black body of the sun in space and on earth, theoretical black bodies
  • Frequency flags (existing: some well known frequencies)
  • Emission lines (existing: hydrogen and oxygen; theoretic and observed)
  • Frequency wavelength photon energy converter/calculator

Clips & Pics

photos & cliparts

Some photos & cliparts

Some photos & cliparts



A small collection of pictures I collected in recent years.

ETS 3 CD-ROM

ETS CD-ROM

CD-ROM Intro for ETS CD

XML / Flash / AS2

Just some basic click and play presentation that autoplays from the ETS 3 CD-ROM. It contains some technical information, software setups and instructions.

Features:
  • External content loading (links, images, setups, installation instructions, readmes, trouble shooter etc.
  • Search food
  • Localization / Multi-language
  • Software product and KNX-product catalogue
  • Some minor animation
  • Nice scrollbar


Due to some internal affairs this project was eventually not chosen for the CD release.

Solidary Christmas Wishes

Solidary Christmas Wishes

Long Flash Christmas card with music

Flash / AS2 / XML / CSS



Just have a look. But please be patient! The images and music will start only after about 10 seconds.

Toon spring menu

Springs gradient

Example of a simple button with elastic effect

Flash



Example of a simple button with elastic effect

Sun Elevation

Sun Elevation

Height of sun in the sky

Flash / AS2



Short demonstration of how high the sun stands in each part of the world

Sidmar TPM

TPM

Online multiplayer game for demonstrating TPM (Total Production Management)

XML / Flash / php / server protocols & daemon

Online multiplayer game for demonstrating TPM (Total Production Management) (Clients + server).
A self-made server takes care of the communications between max. 5 Flash clients. Each client has a seperate view of the game and its user doesn't know what happens on the other parts/clients. Inbetween the turns, the colleagues have limited time to talk and plan upon the next level of the game (which of course becomes harder simultanously). Without efficient communication and responsibility at each client, the end score will be rather low (unless someone already played the game).

For the moment I haven't had the time to setup a demo (server) on my web yet.

Features:
  • Server-client communication
  • Multiplayer
  • Some animation
  • Keyboard and mouse controls
This project was never finished because of the take-over of Sidmar by Arcelor and the following change of directives, amongst others cutting in budgets. Nevertheless, this was a very exciting project.

Nutricia

Nutricia

Analyze what you eat

mysql / Flash / AS2 / php

Search for food items or make a menu and have it analysed. This site accesses the USDA database of nutrient reference that I have made more accessible into mysql. Flash takes the UI by displaying how much proteins, vitamins, minerals, trace elements, carbohydrates, fat (a.o. cholesterol) your food contains (as a percentage of your daily requirements). For each group a detailed view with more specific nutrients is also displayed.

This project is rather paused in development. It is for sale and we would like to develop it further into a good health tool.
A nice opportunity for those who want to provide their customers with a professional, yet nice tool for health and nutrition information.

Features:
  • Complete food database
  • Search food
  • Make menus
  • Displaying nutritional values in graphically in bars or numbers

Recipe site

Recipe site

Flash site to make recipes/print recipes in RecipeML

Flash / AS2 / XML / CSS



Simple recipe site, testing out Flash local saves (local objects) and a recipe XML standard.

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