Portfolio: Flash vs Processing

Flash vs. Processing

In Adobe Flash you are able to do animations and drawing using different techniques.

Processing allows you to create animations and drawing as well.

Both programs work to create animations and drawings, but in different way. Using Adobe Flash you just drag the mouse with the different tools to create shapes in a variety of colours. In Processing you have to type the codes down to create the same shapes and the same variety of colours.

Flash

Developer’s description

Adobe Flash is a platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for "Rich Internet Applications.

Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images.

It supports bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone, and camera. Flash contains an object-oriented language called Action Scriptand supports automation via the JavaScript Flash language.

Applications

Some of Flash users are DHX, Media Vancouver, Pound Puppies, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Nelvana, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, The secret of Kells.

Flash it’s also used on some of the apps for smartphones. Recently Flash stopped supporting Flash player for mobile device. It continues to support deploying flash based content as mobile applications via Adobe AIR.

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A long range of games online.

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Actionscript

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Facebook uses Flash in all their games, videos, etc.

Adobe Flash continues to be a common program used by 2D television and commercial animation.

What is Flash good for?

Most websites uses flash to create a moving advertisement. Also it allows people to play games directly in the different browsers; Flash can be used in a webpage, videos, games, etc.

Jobs

Senior Interactive Developer - HMTL, CSS, Javascript and Flash

Sr. Flash/JavaScript Developer for Ecommerce Start-up

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Flash

Processing

Developer’s description

Processing is an open source programming language and development environment for rendering visual arts, vectors, images, animations, interactions, etc.

Processing renders computer code within a visual context. It can serve as a sketchbook and production tool. Processing can be used by programmers for learning, prototyping, and production.