Flash Education: Renewable Energy Overview

Click on the above screenshot to see the Flash animation. This interactive tells a story in pictures and words about three of the major types of renewable energy. The aim is to provide an accessible overview of hydro, wind and solar photovoltaic power generation.

Wind Farm Animation (Hau Nui Wind Farm)

Click on the above screenshot to view the interactive wind farm animation. (The animation attempts to recreate a partial view of the Hau Nui wind farm in New Zealand’s Wairarapa district as seen from the access road.) To find out more about this wind farm and how wind farms are planned and the optimal sites [...]

Carbon dioxide Emissions Visualiser

To visualise greenhouse gas emissions please check out my ‘emissions visualiser’ , created using Adobe Flash CS4. View animation by clicking link above. Best explored in full screen mode. Update: The original flash file had disappeared from the megawsf free hosting site so I am uploading it again on swfcabin. This flash file still has [...]

Where I am at.

It has been too long since I have updated my blog. I have been so busy with my project and at work that I have neglected it. However I havent been idle! After preparing and presenting 5 talks on “Photovoltaics: Powering the future” (Genesis Energy Greenlane, Huntly, Hamilton, and two talks to schools) I was straight into [...]

Object oriented

The 3 weeks after the Schoolgen Sister Schools Day have gone by extremely quickly. I am working towards some major presentations in the next few weeks including one of the countries largest marae and to the entire staff at Genesis Energy in Green Lane. This has also entailed quite a bit of further research particularly [...]

Flash Development

2nd – 3rd September: Spent two days focused purely on flash cs4 and actionscript 3.0 programming. Learning continuously but such a vast and technical subject it can feel a bit aimless or hard to find a direction especially when self-learning. Flash is both art and logic encapsulated in an alien language. A blend of graphic [...]