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The power of constraints

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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.

Anyway, I thought my code could be of some interest and inspire other people to work in such tight boundaries as well.

Okay here come my first entries to the 25-Line AS Contest. I started off with ideas still floating in my head from the Coded Beauty project, but what came out was actually quite different:

25lineDisco swf | 25lineDisco Code

25lineNebula | 25lineNebula Code

And this is my current entry for the 25lines Contest. I reused parts of the code from my last entry but it still turned out to look quite different.

Baroque swf | Baroque Code

My first too entries didn’t make it, so let’s hope for this round.

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