ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns

We finally finished judging the contestants and here are the results. Instead of having several categories for age, we decided to have only one because the ages did not have a great deal of range. Each of the winners happened to be from a different country, and so we can claim a true World Wide Contest. Congratulations to all! Download winning entries.

William Rafael de J. Ribeiro, Brazil
Our grand prize winner created an interactive “funny face” using the basic Decorator and adding a second component class for a face and four decorator classes for angry, normal, and sad eyes plus a smile decorator. By moving the mouse around you can see the face change and eyes move.



Todd Coulson, U.S.
Todd’s entry used a creative combination of elements to build a baseball diamond. The field was a simple rectangle, and it was decorated with an infield, the bases, a pitcher’s mound, boundary lines and players scrambling to the field. Todd is interested in adding to this foundation using other design patterns.



Timo Hannelin, Finland
Theoretical background for Timo comes from Katariina Nyberg’s article about phyllotaxis, fibonacci and the golden ratio. If we had a grand prize for the best algorithm, it would go to Timo. One algorithm makes an amazing amount of shapes—stars, triangles, squares, lines, shells, spirals…if you are lucky you will see almost all kinds of basic symbols. It also demonstrates that you can change a class in design pattern with a complex algorithm and it doesn’t faze it one bit.

Kevo X. Thomson, UK
Kevo had a very simple entry. By changing the x and y coordinates of the three concrete decorators, he was able to rearrange the images. Again, the change was made and there was absolutely no negative ripple effect. This is exactly what a good design pattern is supposed to do.

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