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A forum for educators interested in developing mathematics classroom material using Adobe Flash.
Flash Tools for Developers: Function Grapher
This Flash Forum article includes source code and modification instructions that will allow you to customize a basic one-variable function grapher.
Flash Tools for Developers: Parametric Curves on the Plane
This Flash Forum article includes source code and modification instructions that will allow you to customize a grapher for polar and parametric curves in the plane.
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Flash Tools for Developers (AS3): Graphing curves in the plane
Using the Templates
The compressed file planar_tools_as3.zip contains all templates and code referenced within the article, and the twenty-five page Developer's Guide (planar_tools_as3.pdf ) gives complete documentation of our 2D graphing classes as well as examples of how they are used. The templates below are used as examples in the documentation and can be opened in Flash CS3 to provide a starting point for using these custom classes.
Function Grapher Template 1
Template 1 consists of the Essential Grapher which graphs up to three functions in a single window and displays coordinates of points when the mouse passes over them. The user can also draw directly on the graph by moving the mouse while down.
Function Grapher Template 2
Template 2 demonstrates how Template 1 can be easily extended to include the trace functionality common to many graphing programs and devices.
Parametric Curves Template
This template provides basic functionality necessary for graphing and tracing parametric curves on the plane in either rectangular or polar coordinate systems.
