In addition to uploading screenshots to Flickr, I have also been adding a few Fnk videos to Vimeo showing how the interface works for those folks that don’t have Flash 10 installed yet. And today I was finally able to do something that’s closer to what I expect Fnk will be able to do once it’s more mature.

Fnk has been updated. The new version is 0.1, build 2736. This update applies to the browser version of Fnk.

With only one month left on the time originally scheduled for Fnk’s development, I have finally enabled the big “Launch” button on the website’s home page.

The past few days have been productive, and the Fnk environment is starting to shape up quite nicely.

Now that I’m concentrating my full time in this project, Fnk development has been progressing quite well. It’s not quite ready for prime time yet, but at least now I can show something to people when I explain to them what my project is about.

Together with writing the project thesis, the most important part on the Fnk project is doing the actual working software, that is, building the environment that I’m proposing on my thesis itself.

I have spent all my (little) free time this past month revising the text for the Fnk thesis.

One of the new cool features added by Flash is GPU acceleration, that is, offloading some of the rendering process to the video card and, as such, making the performance better.

Other cool new feature in Flash 10 is the ability to use custom Pixel Bender filters to make transformations to an image (actually working like pixel shaders). Keita has a nice post showing how it’s done, also with downloadable source.

One of the cool new features of Flash 10 is the ability to synthesize sound without having to resort to byte injection hacks anymore. In that regard, Joa Ebert has a nice experiment showing this feature working, and downloadable sources to boot.