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Absolutely loved the first one – bring on the second. Plasma Cutter FTW! =D

I’ve been pootlin’ about with Flash a little behind the scenes of late, just making the occasional graphical trinket, and it struck me that I hadn’t made a starfield yet in ActionScript – so I knocked together a quick and dirty one in about 20 minutes…

The “star” itself is just a really small, white circle – so small that it turns into a single-pixel block with filtering on it – you can change out the symbol to anything you like, or just draw actual points if you wanted to – I’m happy enough that the guts of it work and will leave it alone and re-use the code when I want the effect sometime…

Source code after the jump if that’s your thing…

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How nice would it be to have the view out of your windows be, well, anything? I’d have something with the ocean in it I think. The Golden Gate bridge bit looked really nice & that’s got water, so it’d be a good start. The train journey one would prolly make me a bit nauseous though!

Where or what would you have?

This guy definitely isn’t Jay-Z… Make sure you watch to the end for the super-sweet solution!

That’s a lot of dedication, but also slightly nuts Win/Win!