Studying

I hope that by the end of Spring Break I am better prepared for all the testing at the end of the year.

Flixel Articles

Last year I started learning how to use a AS3 game framework called Flixel. There wasn't a lot of help to go along with it, but now it getting more popular.

http://www.photonstorm.com/archives/1464/flash-game-dev-tip-10-flixel-2-5-internal-structure-and-performance-tips
http://www.photonstorm.com/archives/1530/flash-game-dev-tip-11-the-flixel-display-list-explained

Stardust Engine:
http://stardust-particle-engine.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/manual/Stardust%20Particle%20Engine%20Manual.pdf

Pixel Art:
http://forums.flixel.org/index.php/topic,5796.0.html

http://flashgameu.com/

AMC 10B

I got a 111 and the cutoff score was 117. Just needed one more correct... Q_Q

Art FRQ

Studying FRQs for tomorrow's FRQ test. I wish that more practice FRQ were given out.

Renaissance:

• Renaissance art was characterized by a focus on the arts of Ancient Greece and Rome.
• New techniques
• Linear perspective
• Chiaroscuro
• Humanism, Neoclassicism
• Study of ancient Greek and Roman classics and ideals.
• Humanists believed in a well-rounded education
• Ideal man, Renaissance man
• Famous Artists
• Da Vinci
• Michaelangelo
• Raphael

Romanticism:

• Romanticism challenged the superiority of reason and rationality
• Wanted a revival of Christianity
• Interested in medieval traditions and art
• Rejected Enlightenment ideas of rigid rationality and supported emotion
• Believed in supremacy of imagination
• Art rejected the ideas of the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism.
• Neoclassicism emphasized courage and war (Greek and roman art)
• Neoclassicism emphasized order,symmetry, and classical simplicity.
• Romanticism emphasized:
• Nature, especially the power and beauty of the natural world.
• Individualism
• Derived from Gothicism (medieval art)
• Social stability of medieval times!
• Literature was highly sentimental and were similar to medieval romances
• Example: Goethe's masterpiece Faust, describes a man who sells his soul to the devil for divine knowledge and devotes his life to the improvement of humankind
• Political effects
• Appreciation of individuality leads to nationalism
• Hegel
• Thesis and Antithesis

Realism:

• Realist and naturalist movement portrayed the hypocrisy, dullness, and cruelty of industrial life and society based on money.
• Unlike Romanticism, which was optimistic and orderly, Realism showed poverty and despair.
• Realist rejected the romantic idealization of nature, love and polite society, portraying the dark side of life.
• Charles Dickens depicts the worst of industrial life in Oliver Twist and David Copperfield.
• Emille Zola wrote at least twenty novels on controversial subjects such as prostitution, alcoholism, and adultery.
• Zola believed in absolute physical determinism, claiming that he could describe people and their actions like a scientist dissects a corpse.
• Realists hoped to destroy illusions about reality and force the public to face reality.