So after my last post on hype I kept on playing with it which eventually led to more visual output and another extension called ChainLayout.

At Halloween Joshua Davis and Branden Hall published a Framework for Generative Design called HYPE. Soon after they started a contest to encourage people to start playing with it.
Already before this contest was announced I had of course grabbed a copy and started to play with it. First I tried and compared it to my diploma project Coded Beauty which finally led me to writing my first extension for HYPE.

Yay! I won the contest! CS4 is all mine! Thanks again to everybody who voted for me!

One of the things everybody knows but are still ignored most of the times is the power of constraints. It keeps you from loosing yourself in complexity and saves you a lot of time when an idea turns out not to work. Therefore I love the The 25-Line ActionScript Contest run by Keith Peters. I have to admit it’s also the hope of winning a CS4 Suite.