My entry for The 25-Line ActionScript Contest, candidate 008, a flight simulation over a terrain of perlinNoise.

Awfully long lines of code in an extremely compressed form isn’t the easiest thing to read, so here’s a couple of tricks for tightening code I came up with:

instead of

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, update);


function update(e:Event):void {
var i:int=1, j:int =2, ii:int =0;

...

}

you could write:

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, function update(e:Event, i:int=1, j:int=2, ii:int=0):void {

} // defaults has to be const values, though

and how to set pixels of a BitmapData on a single line:

(bmd = new BitmapData(w,h,false)).setVector( new Rectangle(0, 0, bmd.width, bmd.height), Vector.<uint>([0xebe9da, 0xebe1db, 0xe9e9da,/* long list of uints for the pixel values */ 0x00]));

… I think I’ll later post the whole code in a longer and more readable version as soon as I get some comments written on that.

Currently (January 22, 6:38 pm) my entry seems the be at 3rd place, with 10 votes (12,12,10, …) – so let’s see, anything might happen ! Who wouldn’t mind CS4 for a birthday present ?

Edit (January 23, 2009 at 8:48 am): Looks So Very Promising ! ok, I’m trying to keep cool, anything might still happen !

Edit (January 28, 2009 at 10:15 am): O-oh, my entry was leading all the weekend, now it looks like 030 has taken some votes ahead … But hey – you still have time to vote if haven’t already !

Edit (February 1st, 2009): Well, new month, new ideas – or actually old, writing 008 I did come up with couple of more ideas, so let’s see  !