This is the laughing mans logo. The Laughing Man is one of the primary characters from Ghost in the shell Standalone Complex. He uses this image to mask his identity.
This project has been created entirely within Macromedia Flash MX.
The logo is a repeating Shockwave file. Although it may appear that the text is merely rotating if you watch carefully you will notice that it is in fact streaming. i.e. characters flow in from the top right and out via the bottem right. Watch it and you will see. This is one area that posed a problem as the full sentance takes up more room than one rotation. My solution was to create a text generator. The key was to seperate the text to be written away from the actual rotation mechanism. This allows for as long a line of text as desired within a limited area.
This makes a nice screensaver or even a animated background. I use it as one of my Internet Explorer start up pages.
Keys:
- p/P = Pause / Unpause
- i/I = Info on / off
The Laughing Man logo is available in one download:
Complete[link2] – HTML file and Shockwave content (70KB)
This file was compressed using
Win Ace[link3] 2.2. It is an executable zip file.
[link2] http://www.millington.no-ip.org/shared/downloads/projects/laughingman/LaughingMan.EXE
[link3] http://www.davidmillington.net/pages/WinAce